Militarization and Weaponization of Outer Space - Global Issues
Posted by walker on October 31st, 2006
Unfortunately, as long as individual nations are not compelled to abide by international law, extending coercive implements into space is a logical, natural progression, and there is no reason not to do it.
If, in some future time, the fetish of nationalism were subordinated to a functioning system of international justice, capable of enforcing transgressions of international law, then it would be possible to prevent the militarization of space.
