The spread of dual-use technology is another reason to go slow on comprehensive bans. For example, Germany, in concert with Russia, has a program called TECSAS that is designed to rendezvous with an uncooperative satellite and repair it. It's a simple task to "unrepair" such target satellites as well. If, treaty-bound, the United States was prevented from fielding similar technology, it may face a future where it loses space superiority not because of enemy space weapons, but simply because it didn't deploy the necessary basic space capabilities that others have.

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Worden, Simon P. "High Anxiety." Bulletin of the Atomic Scientists. Vol. 62, No. 2 (March/April 2006): 21-23. [ 2 quotes ]