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[–] 34 points 1 month ago (7 children)

I thought there were agreements regarding the fact that weapons should not be deployed to space.

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  • [–] 7 points 1 month ago

    From what I understand it's only WMDs that are internationally banned from space, while obviously a rather distasteful thing to do it's not unlawful to put conventional weapons in space. The Soviets armed some of their space stations with autocannon for example, which isn't even the best example of their space programme making Bond villains everywhere look like complete scrubs.

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  • [–] 1 point 1 month ago

    No one was ever going to respect such an agreement. This stuff has been in the works for a while. Russia looks like it's testing out it's own satelite killing tech as we speak as well.

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