... cannon was installed to fend off prospective attackers. By the 1980s, though, the concealment of military space within ‘civilian’ space by all the space powers became less and less feasible or credible. On the American side, the growth of military...
... it. The danger is that any strategy of ‘self-deterrence’, which assures losing the overall space-terrestrial conflict, creates a hair-trigger for space conflicts, much like the hair-trigger for nuclear war. Does the country that attacks...