Will Space ever be weaponized?

Question

I recently read an interesting book about the last two and a half decades of politics. However it centers around 9/11 and a report that certain people in the Bush administation wrote called "The Global Domination Project." It says that there needs to be a dominance in Air Land Water and Space. We are trying to put dominance in the Middle East with this Imperalist war. Also we ahve been dominant in air and water for quite some time. Will we soon try to dominate space by weaponizing it?

Answer 1

There is an international space agreement between all the world powers that states weapons cannot be "stored" in space.  With that said there are loop holes that allow a weapon to be shot from the ground, go to space, break apart, and then several warheads re-enter the atmosphere.

Answer 2

No one will admit to you but I guarantee you the U.S. has weapons in space already, maybe Russia also.

Answer 3

We have maintained weapons in space for a number of decades now.

I am not sure of what you are basing your opinion on.

Answer 4

Every super power has attemp to weaponing in space, just look those space mission from soviet and usa, they true intention was building like a base in moon and other plan,  right now they more focus in satelllie, as china can able to destroy satellie with land launch missle, however there's always a hyp that a satellie can destroy a target, but so far no one confirm it exist.

Answer 5

Space is a pretty big place. Are you sure it isn't already weaponized?  

Answer 6

It was and has been and might still be.  The Chinese have tested a weapon that takes out satellites and the nest step to that will be developing a defense to it.  The US would not be the only country doing this as the Russians have done research in that area and in many ways are better positioned to have them or launch them easily into space (use much larger rockets with better payload then the US and the Mir station) and the Chinese are developing a space program themselves.  It is entirely likely that some one will at some time, if they have not already, have a weapons platform in space.  The US has broken or bent some treaties but probably about the same number the Russians/Soviet Union have kept and again not all countries have signed those treaties and I do not think China did.

Answer 7

Only a matter of time. Question is will we annilate all life on earth first.

Answer 8

Now, don't get confused because William Kristol and Robert Kagan chose to defame the United States.  That is an ant-christ of political agenda if you ask me!  The US as a whole does not have any jurisdiction whatsoever on this so-called dominance of the world.  I, for one, do believe that they will meet me in purgatory for such promonitions of their ideological factor!  Even though this war that is being engaged in the Middle East, it isn't to gain the ranks of Bush's Administration.  He for one is not a popular figure as a President but a wonderful Commander-in-Chief, although he was able to be UA (or AWOL to those non-Naval types) because of his big daddy.  All this is but a slight true accord of the the New World Order conspiracy that has developed during the Trilateral Commission era!  Nonetheless, this is going to pass over as we have our next POTUS in check.

Answer 9

We have been weaponizing space since the 1960s.  It's the whole reason for the space program in the first place.  In fact the reason the Russians and Chinese are against Star Wars (the Strategic Defense Initiative) is not because it can shoot down their missiles, it's because it can shoot nukes from space.

Answer 10

We already are weaponizing space.

Answer 11

The only time a spacecraft ever was armed was a Soviet space station in the 1970's.  There have been no armed spacecraft since.

BTW - don't believe everything you read in a book.

Answer 12

Yes, space will eventually be weaponized, just not in the immediate future.  Satellites will prove to be vital in modern warfare, weapons have already been developed by the worlds great powers capable of downing satellites and weapons would be produced via on the satellite to deflect incoming missiles.  Technology has already been developed to drop strategic nuclear weapons off satellites, but officially the SALT talks have forbidden this practice.  As aviation advancs we will have aircraft capable on penetrating and conducting warfare in the stratosphere and space.  Just a matter of time, maybe 20 years?