Obama to Seek Space Weapons Ban

Following a campaign promise, the Barack Obama administration plans to
seek a total ban on space weapons. In so doing, Barack Obama is going
down the largely discredited path of national defense by arms control
treaty.

http://www.associatedcontent.com/art...ban.html?cat=9

http://www.whitehouse.gov/agenda/defense/ sez,

"Ensure Freedom of Space: The Obama-Biden Administration will restore
American leadership on space issues, seeking a worldwide ban on
weapons that interfere with military and commercial satellites. They
will thoroughly assess possible threats to U.S. space assets and the
best options, military and diplomatic, for countering them,
establishing contingency plans to ensure that U.S. forces can maintain
or duplicate access to information from space assets and accelerating
programs to harden U.S. satellites against attack."

Allen Thomson wrote:

http://www.whitehouse.gov/agenda/defense/ sez,

"Ensure Freedom of Space: The Obama-Biden Administration will restore
American leadership on space issues, seeking a worldwide ban on
weapons that interfere with military and commercial satellites. They
will thoroughly assess possible threats to U.S. space assets and the
best options, military and diplomatic, for countering them,
establishing contingency plans to ensure that U.S. forces can maintain
or duplicate access to information from space assets and accelerating
programs to harden U.S. satellites against attack."

Can you IMAGINE that?

A government that follows his campaign promises?

That does what it said it would?

Incredible.

--
jacob navia
jacob at jacob point remcomp point fr
logiciels/informatique
http://www.cs.virginia.edu/~lcc-win32

Mark R. Whittington wrote:
Following a campaign promise, the Barack Obama administration plans to
seek a total ban on space weapons. In so doing, Barack Obama is going
down the largely discredited path of national defense by arms control
treaty.

http://www.associatedcontent.com/art...ban.html?cat=9


That should finally drive the stake into the Brilliant Pebbles concept
once and for all, but how does it affect the ground-based ABM and ASAT
programs?

Pat

Pat Flannery wrote:
That should finally drive the stake into the Brilliant Pebbles
concept once and for all

Well, drive it underground and/or into hibernation like a cicadia anyway.

rick jones
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these opinions are mine, all mine; HP might not want them anyway...
feel free to post, OR email to rick.jones2 in hp.com but NOT BOTH...

jacob navia wrote:

Allen Thomson wrote:

http://www.whitehouse.gov/agenda/defense/ sez,

"Ensure Freedom of Space: The Obama-Biden Administration will restore
American leadership on space issues, seeking a worldwide ban on
weapons that interfere with military and commercial satellites. They
will thoroughly assess possible threats to U.S. space assets and the
best options, military and diplomatic, for countering them,
establishing contingency plans to ensure that U.S. forces can maintain
or duplicate access to information from space assets and accelerating
programs to harden U.S. satellites against attack."

Can you IMAGINE that?

A government that follows his campaign promises?

He hasm't followed a campaign promise - he's issued empty words with
action sometime in the future.

The more discerning among us can tell the difference.

D.
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http://derekl1963.livejournal.com/

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Oct 5th, 2004 JDL

On Mon, 26 Jan 2009 22:40:56 +0100, jacob navia
wrote:

Allen Thomson wrote:

http://www.whitehouse.gov/agenda/defense/ sez,

"Ensure Freedom of Space: The Obama-Biden Administration will restore
American leadership on space issues, seeking a worldwide ban on
weapons that interfere with military and commercial satellites. They
will thoroughly assess possible threats to U.S. space assets and the
best options, military and diplomatic, for countering them,
establishing contingency plans to ensure that U.S. forces can maintain
or duplicate access to information from space assets and accelerating
programs to harden U.S. satellites against attack."

Can you IMAGINE that?

A government that follows his campaign promises?

That does what it said it would?

Incredible.

It doesn't take a lot of effort to 'assess' - the big question is,
once the reccommendations are made, will he ACT on them?

On Jan 26, 12:12*pm, Allen Thomson wrote:
http://www.whitehouse.gov/agenda/defense/sez,

"Ensure Freedom of Space: The Obama-Biden Administration will restore
American leadership on space issues, seeking a worldwide ban on
weapons that interfere with military and commercial satellites. They
will thoroughly assess possible threats to U.S. space assets and the
best options, military and diplomatic, for countering them,
establishing contingency plans to ensure that U.S. forces can maintain
or duplicate access to information from space assets and accelerating
programs to harden U.S. satellites against attack."

Too bad we still do not have the most valuable high ground covered,
meaning our Earth-Moon L1 (Selene L1).

Are you afraid or forbidden to discuss this specific location?

~ BG

On Jan 26, 1:40*pm, jacob navia wrote:
Allen Thomson wrote:

http://www.whitehouse.gov/agenda/defense/sez,

"Ensure Freedom of Space: The Obama-Biden Administration will restore
American leadership on space issues, seeking a worldwide ban on
weapons that interfere with military and commercial satellites. They
will thoroughly assess possible threats to U.S. space assets and the
best options, military and diplomatic, for countering them,
establishing contingency plans to ensure that U.S. forces can maintain
or duplicate access to information from space assets and accelerating
programs to harden U.S. satellites against attack."

Can you IMAGINE that?

A government that follows his campaign promises?

That does what it said it would?

Incredible.

--
jacob navia
jacob at jacob point remcomp point fr
logiciels/informatiquehttp://www.cs.virginia.edu/~lcc-win32

There's a first time for everything. Why not at least give it an
honest shot?

~ BG

"Mark R. Whittington" wrote in message
...
Following a campaign promise, the Barack Obama administration plans to
seek a total ban on space weapons. In so doing, Barack Obama is going
down the largely discredited path of national defense by arms control
treaty.

http://www.associatedcontent.com/art...ban.html?cat=9



From all I've read, the Pentagon has concluded since the Chinese asat shoot down
that anything in orbit is highly vulnerable. So the weapons would stay on the
ground
where they can be protected. The Pentagon assumes a first strike would easily
take out our key satellites. So the winner will be the one that can replace them
faster
and deny space to the enemy. We need to be able to shoot down missiles
as they're launched and build smaller, harder satellites that we can keep
putting up as they shoot them down. Banning space weapons doesn't
really change anything in the short term I don't think.