Evidence: Alphabetical
- Backlash against U.S. deployment of space weapons could undermine U.S. conventional strength
- British experience with carrier aviation after World War I demonstrates difficulty in preserving technological dominance
- Basic problem with space arms control is that virtually any space system could perform an anti-satellite role
- Ballistic missiles offer signficant advantages over strategic bombing
- Ban on space weapons could block peaceful dual-use technologies
- Boost-Phase Missile Defense can Lead to Space Weaponization
- Before China tested its ASAT, U.S. space weapons effort was politically uncertain
- Boost-phase missile defense systems are not viable anti-satellite weapons
- Best Policy for Ensuring Commerical Spacepower is Encouraging Investment in R & D -- Isolationist Policies will only be Counterproductive
- Boost-Phase Missile Defense doesn't Destroy Warhead, Leaving it to Fall on Populated Areas
- Both the U.S. and China have a Vested Interest in Maintaining the Status Quo in Outer Space
- Better space surveillance needed now to deal with future disputes
- Boosting US space surveillance network is the kind of non- offensive deterrence that can help break the security dilemma with China
- Ballistic missiles are harder targets to hit than satellite
- BMD systems work better as deterrent under exoatmospheric testing ban
- Blinding lasers can disable optical satellites without creating space debris
- BMD tests more than sufficient for testing ASAT weapon
- Ban on just high altitude ASAT tests could have perverse effect of legitimizing low altitude tests
- Ban on ASATs could preclude development of peaceful space technologies
- Ban on BMD tests might benefit missile defense development by shifting focus to defeating countermeasures
- BMD systems could still continue to be tested and refined without exoatmospheric impacts
- Better space surveillance data would reduce satellite operation costs and improve satellite lifespans
- Budget cuts have forced shutdown of the USAF space fence that was tracking space debris
- Both international and federal law fall short of regulation of space debris for private sector entities
- Both U.S. and China pursuing Active Debris Removal and On Orbit Servicing programs that will effectively weaponize outer space by 2020
- Banning ASAT testing should inhibit both vertical and horizontal proliferation of space weapons