Evidence: Alphabetical
- Difficulty identifying attackers creates incentives for preemptive strikes with space weapons
- Deployment of space weapons would cripple commercial space sector by increasing costs for satellite insurance
- Demand for Space-Based Radio Frequency Spectrum is Increasing
- Deployment of space weapons will be destabilizing because it will expose vulnerabilities
- Demand for Geo-Synchronous Orbital Slots is Increasing
- Directed-energy weapons can disable satellites from a distance
- Defensive weapons will be countered by offensive weapons, sparking an arms race
- Destabilizing, "use-or-lose" pressures of space weapons will drive automation, increasing the risks of catastrophic accidental war
- Desert Storm convinced U.S. military of need for space control
- Deployment of space weapons risks accidental nuclear war by threatening Russian early warning systems
- Data indicates U.S. military dependence on space assets is significant and growing
- Development of Space Weapons necessary to Defend Earth against Asteroids
- Deployment of space weapons will cause world to align against U.S.
- Deployment of space weapons will set unique and damaging precedent, further threatening nonproliferation regime
- Deploying space weapons would run counter to American values
- Deploying space weapons would undermine U.S. soft power
- Deployment of space weapons increases the risk that malfunctions will be perceived as an attack
- Defeating hard or deeply buried targets is a major defense priority
- Doubtful that U.S. Pursuit of SDI Dissuaded Soviet Union
- Directed energy weapons not yet viable for use as an ASAT weapon
- Differences in Chinese and American Definitions of Outer Space
- Debris is already becoming self-sustaining
- Debris from China's recent ASAT test is forcing U.S. government and commercial sector to consider risks from space weapons
- Deploying countermeasures to ASATs only continues arms race logic -- should first try diplomacy
- Dual-Use Nature of most Satellites Causes both U.S. and China to Mistrust Each Other's Intentions in Space
- Declassification of Space Surveillance Data Complicated by its Potential for Offensive Counter Space (OCS)
- Debatable whether Adversaries would want to or need to Rely on U.S. Space Surveillance Data to Attack Space Assets
- Defense of U.S. space assets requires military to disable enemy assets
- Declining space surveillance capabilities invite attack
- Dolman's Astropolitik fails because it ignores the increasingly interconnected, cosmopolitan, and globalized world
- Defending against an asteroid could take several years of preparation
- Debris from a space war could make earths orbits unusable for decades
- Dozens of countries vying to join spacefaring club, which will inevitably increase space debris problem
- Deployment of space-based weapons would initiate space arms race
- Draft PPWT fails to advance space security because it lacks a compliance organization or mechanism
- Dolman's reliance on an overwhelming space force would create a single point of failure for U.S. national security