Geography 2090A/B Lecture Notes - Lecture 14: Salyut 3, Scientific American, Anti-Satellite Weapon
20 Jun 2016
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Indeed, some of the first serious investments in space tech was by the us and. Us most active, own military space program. Centralized under ussc (usstratcom: provides independent weather communication networks for the us military, as well as missile warning, intelligence, and independent navigation systems. In 1962, the us carried out a number of nuclear weapon n tests in the upper atmosphere and in space: 9 tests, starfish prime most famous test 1. 4 megaton bomb detonated at 400kms. Us military and ronald reagan began to focus on the us ability to intercept a soviet attack if it should ever occur. In 1984, reagan announced sdi as a research and development project of the us department of defense. The program was to establish a network of interceptive missiles to be able to cancel out soviet first strike capacity. The plan was heavily criticized in the space community for violating the. Nicknamed star wars war in space.
