The rods from God
06/08/05
By chance, the same day that Star Wars: Revenge of the Sith was released in theaters across the country, the world learned of the Bush administration's plans to weaponize space. ... Among the weapons the Air Force might deploy are space-based lasers, a space plane capable of delivering a half-ton payload anywhere in the world in 45 minutes, and the 'rods from god.' The rods are currently just a concept -- and have been since the early 1980s -- but, if the myriad technical and political hurdles to deployment could be overcome, the system could represent a tremendous leap forward in the military's ability to destroy underground, hardened facilities of the type that have allowed Iran and other rogue states to violate the Nuclear Proliferation Treaty with impunity...
http://tinyurl.com/92j6w
from The Weekly Standard, by Michael Goldfarb
Informant: Thomas L. Knapp
By chance, the same day that Star Wars: Revenge of the Sith was released in theaters across the country, the world learned of the Bush administration's plans to weaponize space. ... Among the weapons the Air Force might deploy are space-based lasers, a space plane capable of delivering a half-ton payload anywhere in the world in 45 minutes, and the 'rods from god.' The rods are currently just a concept -- and have been since the early 1980s -- but, if the myriad technical and political hurdles to deployment could be overcome, the system could represent a tremendous leap forward in the military's ability to destroy underground, hardened facilities of the type that have allowed Iran and other rogue states to violate the Nuclear Proliferation Treaty with impunity...
http://tinyurl.com/92j6w
from The Weekly Standard, by Michael Goldfarb
Informant: Thomas L. Knapp
Starmail - 8. Jun, 11:31
