The Growing Risk of a War in Space
The prospect of weaponized satellites launching a Pearl Harbor style attack in orbit is more probable than many people realize.
Geoff Manaugh 11:06 AM ET
In Ghost Fleet, a 2015 novel by security theorists Peter Singer and August Cole, the next world war begins in space.
Aboard an apparently civilian space station called the Tiangong, or “Heavenly Palace,” Chinese astronauts—taikonauts—maneuver a chemical oxygen iodine laser (COIL) into place. They aim their clandestine electromagnetic weapon at its first target, a U.S. Air Force communications satellite that helps to coordinate forces in the Pacific theater far below. The laser “fired a burst of energy that, if it were visible light instead of infrared, would have been a hundred thousand times brighter than the sun.” The beam melts through the external hull of the U.S. satellite and shuts down its sensitive inner circuitry.
READ MORE: http://www.theatlantic.com/technology/archive/2016/06/weaponizing-the-sky/488024/
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