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Deployment of Space Weapons Won't Cause Arms Races (1153)

Historical examples refute the technological determinism argument. Nation-states will choose to develop or not to develop space weapons based on their own strategic and economic calculations.
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Deployment of Space Weapons Could Cause a Space Arms Race (1368)

The first nation to deploy space weapons will set off an arms race in space as other states race to counter any perceived strategic gain or take advantage of the leading state's technological research and development.
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Japan to allow military use of space: lawmakers -- Agence France Press -- May 9, 2008
Japanese lawmakers voted Friday to allow the military use of space, breaking a decades-old taboo in the officially pacifist country which has an increasingly ambitious space programme. The move will remove any legal obstacles to building more advanced spy satellites. [ Quotes (0) ] [ Comments (0) ]
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Transparency Crucial to Chinese International Space Role -- Craig Couvalt -- Aviation Week and Space Technology -- May 7, 2008
China's secrecy-bound space program, increasingly capable of advanced operations, risks becoming an impediment to international, cooperative lunar and planetary exploration unless it becomes far more open, say top international space policy managers meeting with their Chinese counterparts here. [ Quotes (0) ] [ Comments (0) ]
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Did 'naive engineers' spur China's anti-satellite test? -- New Scientist -- May 7, 2008
China tested an anti-satellite weapon in 2007 simply because it was ready to test after 20 years of development -- and not as a deliberate provocation, an expert on Chinese space policy said at a US Senate hearing on Wednesday. [ Quotes (2) ] [ Comments (0) ]
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China Satellite Navigation System Planned for 2010 -- Peter B. de Selding -- Space.com -- May 5, 2008
Chinese satellite navigation officials say they intend to field an operational system covering all of Asia by 2010, but they are giving few details on the deployment plans for their global system. In addition China has yet to complete frequency coordination with the United States, Europe, Russia and others. [ Quotes (0) ] [ Comments (0) ]
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General Plays Down Concerns Over Ambiguous Missile Launches -- Elaine M. Grossman -- Global Security Newswire -- April 22, 2008
A top U.S. military official last week branded as "facetious" congressional concerns that the launch of a proposed long-range conventional missile might be mistaken for a nuclear salvo. [ Quotes (0) ] [ Comments (0) ]
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Military's Space Demands Keep Topping Supply -- Jim Wolf -- Reuters -- April 17, 2008
U.S. military demand for satellite services will continue to outrun supply as the United States fleshes out a global information "mosaic," according to the Air Force's top civilian. [ Quotes (0) ] [ Comments (0) ]
Ex-Pentagon Arms Tester Belittles Missile Defense -- Jim Wolf -- Reuters -- April 17, 2008
The former top U.S. weapons tester told Congress on Wednesday the Pentagon was wasting what may add up to hundreds of billions of dollars to build what he described as a largely useless anti-ballistic missile shield. [ Quotes (0) ] [ Comments (0) ]
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