Comments on: An unusual hearing on space weapons http://www.spacepolitics.com/2005/09/13/an-unusual-hearing-on-space-weapons/?utm_source=rss&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=an-unusual-hearing-on-space-weapons Because sometimes the most important orbit is the Beltway... Wed, 17 Sep 2014 13:35:41 +0000 hourly 1 https://wordpress.org/?v=4.0.38 By: Kevin Parkin http://www.spacepolitics.com/2005/09/13/an-unusual-hearing-on-space-weapons/#comment-4797 Wed, 14 Sep 2005 04:30:28 +0000 http://www.districtofbaseball.com/spacepolitics/?p=652#comment-4797 The name of the hearing itself “Parliamentary Hearing on Space Security” raises an important point: The rest of the world labels this basket of issues “space security” whereas the US labels it “space weapons”.

The trouble is “space weapons” has connotations of Star Wars type scenarios that are not the intent of the US. “space security” is a better descriptor for what DOD presently wants and the name is much less of a liability. DOD should change their terminology unless they specifically want to induce hearings, deliberations and preemptive thinking about “space weapons” around the world while not actually pursuing them.

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