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Earl, Richard Hansen. "Can the United States Afford to Surrender in the Next Conflict to Another Nation's Dominance in Space?." Air & Space Power Journal. Vol. 12 (Fall 1998): 108-110. [ 1 reference ]
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U.S. Space Assets Vulnerable to a Variety of Attacks from Rogue Nations and Terrorist Groups
On the other hand, many presently robust industrial nations have space-launch facilities with a base of manufacturing and a technical personnel pool. Those nations are capable of placing dangerous payloads in space to menace United States space-traveling assets, but only a few might be expected to do so. Hard-to-detect techniques such as placing of space-mines, use of electromagnetic-pulse devices, killer-laser or particle-beam weapons and others, are among the weapons that such hostile industrial nations could bring to bear. Many nations can be brought to mind that harbor malice for the United States and this animosity could be expressed by disruptive actions against our space assets. ( More ... )
Earl, Richard Hansen. "Can the United States Afford to Surrender in the Next Conflict to Another Nation's Dominance in Space?." Air & Space Power Journal. Vol. 12 (Fall 1998): 108-110. [ 1 reference ]