in 2018 that “it is not enough to merely have an American presence in space, we must have American dominance in space….

Space Force and the Evisceration of the 1967 Outer Space Treatyĭonald Trump declared at a meeting of the National Space Council of the U.S. and China and b) the growing militarization of space by the U.S.-in violation of the landmark Outer Space Treaty of 1967 that sets aside space “for peaceful purposes.” China-U.S. The above scenario looks increasingly plausible given a) the growing prospect of war between the U.S. activates its “rods from God”- a scheme developed in Project Thor involving telephone-pole-sized tungsten rods being dropped from orbit reaching a speed ten times the speed of sound hitting with the force of nuclear weapons-and Beijing’s military command centers and other significant targets are destroyed. and China, after years of belligerence, go to war over control of the Taiwan straits most of the battles are fought through cyber-attacks and space-based weapons systems that had been perfected over the previous decades. ImImagine this scenario from the year 2045: The U.S.

Space warfare treaty