Daily Express By Matt Drake 9/12/2017
RUSSIA and China have updated a draft treaty to ban the deployment of weapons in space but the US opposes it in fear of a "space Pearl Harbour".
The draft treaty was first presented in 2008 and will be updated for the second time in the upcoming UN General Assembly.
The treaty is favoured by the majority of UN members, but the US has been opposing it arguing it relies too heavily on space and could be vulnerable to attack.
In 2001 a commission chaired by Donald Rumsfield warned that the US may suffer a “space Pearl Harbour” from an enemy attack on American satellites.
The commission warned: “The US is more dependent on space than any other nation. Yet the threat to the US and its allies in and from space does not command the attention it merits.
“Those hostile to the US can acquire on the global market the means to deny, disrupt or destroy US space systems by attacking satellites in space, communication links to and from the ground or ground stations that command the satellites and process their data.”
The US just last week launched a drone on its fifth mission called Boeing X-37B, which is a spacecraft that could be used for warfare.
The most advanced space nation said it is adopting a “wait and see” response, neither wishing to immediately de-militarise nor further develop its weapons capabilities.
In 1972, the Soviet Union and America signed the Anti-Ballistic Missile Treaty which banned both countries from developing national ABM systems.
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http://www.express.co.uk/news/science/852915/us-russia-china-space-war-un-nasa-drone-spacecraft
