Re: Strategic Weapons on the SS or ISS?


"Steven L." <sdlitvin@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote
Finally, note that orbiting nuclear-pumped X-ray lasers were among the
defensive systems that had been considered for President Reagan's
Strategic Defense Initiative. These would, as you say, have violated the
letter of the Outer Space Treaty.

By no means. They would have violated the ABM Treaty, bot
the 1967 OST. But by then, the Soviet KASKAD and SKIF
battle stations would have been tested in orbit, and the treaty
would have become moot.


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