Orbiting the Abyss: US Space Weapons and the Unseen Arms Race The United States' confirmation that it has deployed a space based weapon in Earth's orbit is one symptom of a more pervasive issue – our tendency to militarize the cosmos.
This development highlights the unregulated and rapidly escalating arms race in space, with far reaching implications.
For decades, the international community has grappled with managing the proliferation of space based assets.