So, what is Russia really trying to say here?:
Russia is prepared to repel asteroids to save Earth “if necessary,” deputy head of the Russian space agency Viktor Remishevsky said Tuesday, ITAR-TASS news agency reported.
“If necessary, Russia’s rocket-manufacturing complex can create the means in space to repulse asteroids threatening Earth,” Remishevsky said, without giving further details.The official stressed that saving Earth from the threat of asteroids demanded international cooperation.
The motive behind this announcement is undoubtedly connected to the Bush administration’s recent unveiling of its new National Space Policy, which aims to allot the US space-based hegemony while denying easy space access to other “hostile” states:
President Bush has signed a new National Space Policy that rejects future arms-control agreements that might limit U.S. flexibility in space and asserts a right to deny access to space to anyone “hostile to U.S. interests.”
The document, the first full revision of overall space policy in 10 years, emphasizes security issues, encourages private enterprise in space and characterizes the role of U.S. space diplomacy largely in terms of persuading other nations to support U.S. policy.
“Freedom of action in space is as important to the United States as air power and sea power,” the policy asserts in its introduction.
Are we well on our way to a potential future only Ronald Reagan, Star Wars program in tow, could love? Probably not, but this combined with the frightening resurgence of leg warmers makes me believe it’s 1986 all over again.
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