Pentagon Official: U.S. Is Not Developing Space Weapons

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By Peter B. de Selding, Space News Staff Writer
posted: 20 February 2009 7:53 am ET

STRASBOURG, France - The United States is not developing space weapons and could not afford to do so even if it wanted to , an official with the Pentagon's National Security Space Office said Thursday.

Pete Hays, a senior policy analyst at the space office who is also associate director of the Eisenhower Center for Space and Defense Studies, said U.S. policy on space weaponry has remained pretty much the same over the last 30 years despite the occasionally heated debate on the subject during the administration of former U.S. President George W. Bush.

"There has not been one minute spent on this issue as far as I know," Hays said of U.S. Defense Department policy on using weapons in space. "There are no space weaponization programs. It's an issue that academics like to flog now and then, but in terms of funded programs, there aren't any. I can tell you that categorically."

Hays made his remarks during a space security conference organized by the International Space University here. He said that even if the United States decided to embark on a space-based weapon system, it could not pay for it given its current military program commitments.


more:

http://www.livescience.com/space/090220-pentagon-space-weapons.html

[BanzaiBonnie]

1. And do we believe this?

Just wondering.


We were also told no one was spying on US citizens.