Name: War in Heaven: The Arms Race in Outer Space
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Author: Caldicott, Helen ; Eisendrath, Craig
ISBN: 9781595581143

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War in Heaven: The Arms Race in Outer Space

Type

Physical Book

Author

Helen Caldicott

Craig Eisendrath

Publisher

New Press

Year

2007

Language

English

Pages

166

Format

Hardcover

Dimensions

21.3 x 14.8 x 2.1 cm

Weight

0.35 kg.

ISBN

1595581146

ISBN13

9781595581143

Synopsis "War in Heaven: The Arms Race in Outer Space"

When most of us think about the potential of outer space for future generations, we think of world communications, satellite navigation, and scientific exploration. U.S. Space Command, however, thinks about weapons. Believing that conflict in space and wars fought from space are inevitable, the president has called on the agency to weaponize outer space and thus provoke an arms race that could cost the United States trillions of dollars and could lead to the demise of the human race.In War in Heaven, a Nobel Prize-nominated peace activist and a former U.S. foreign service officer (who helped write the Outer Space Treaty of 1967) look at the history of military uses of space and the current plans for "militarizing the heavens," including kinetic, laser, nuclear bombardment, and anti-satellite weapons. Contrary to the claims of Secretary of Defense Donald Rumsfeld that the United States faces a "space Pearl Harbor," Caldicott and Eisendrath show that the United States itself is today the principal obstruction to passage of an international treaty banning weapons from outer space.At a time when plans to build and deploy space weapons are on the administration's agenda but only just becoming known to the general public, this book will help launch a national discussion of a critical issue.

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