we should have nuked the s#it out of them in 1950 when we had the chance
"I will cut investments in unproven missile defense systems"
-- Barack Obama, 2007 campaign trail
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2008 Pentagon Report (March 2008):
China's Growing Military Space Power
By Leonard David
Special Correspondent, SPACE.com
March 6, 2008
GOLDEN, Colorado — A just-released Pentagon report spotlights a growing U.S. military concern that China is developing a multi- dimensional program to limit or prevent the use of space-based assets by its potential adversaries during times of crisis or conflict.
Furthermore, last year's successful test by China of a direct-ascent, anti-satellite (ASAT) weapon to destroy its own defunct weather satellite, the report adds, underscores that country's expansion from the land, air, and sea dimensions of the traditional battlefield into the space and cyber-space domains.
Although China's commercial space program has utility for non- military research, that capability demonstrates space launch and control know-how that have direct military application. Even the Chang'e 1 — the Chinese lunar probe now circling the Moon — is flagged in the report as showcasing China's ability "to conduct complicated space maneuvers — a capability which has broad implications for military counterspace operations."
To read the entire publication [29.67MB/pdf], see U.S. Dept of Defense:
http://www.defenselink.mil/pubs/pdfs/China_Military_Report_08.pdf
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"I will not weaponize space"
"I will cut investments in unproven missile defense systems"
-- Barack Obama, 2007 campaign trail
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From the Sino-Russian Joint Statement of April 23, 1997:
"The two sides [China and Russia] shall, in the spirit of partnership, strive to promote the multipolarization of the world and the establishment of a new international order."
Most of the commenters in the article put the mushroom cloud over Moscow although to my eye, it looks north of Moscow, closer to St. Petersburg.
Back when Harry Truman dealt with McArthur (like a democrat) was before it was known democrats always make screwy decisions..
Democrats have always been Moonbats..
McArthur would have solved many problems during Korea with the Chinese.. and
Patton would have solved many problems in Europe by kicking the bejesus out of the Russians.. after WWII..
AND McCarthy would have solved many more problems by flushing out the commies out of the federal givernment...
It’s LACK OF exposing and prosecuting democrats is the source of most of AMericas problems.. for a hundred years..
Not to give the Chinese credit, but that mushroom cloud juts far out through the atmosphere, and I can see huge seismic waves tens of thousands of feet high radiating away from the cloud. My guess is someone decided to troll by using a picture of a life-ending impact on the planet.
Europe nuked? Finally, we get rid of the communist epi-center.
I guess your average Free Trade Communist who supports Free Trade with Communist China...would get a thrill about this...
Oops...they posted it, too. </sarc>
Right. Welcome to 50 years ago.
The Chinese who set up the display were from Beijing and innocently mistook the mushroom cloud as “smog”.
Bump
I am sorry to say but with our current doofus we are all doomed.
Anyone who has read Robert Heinlein’s “The Moon is a Harsh Mistress” understand that the moon is the ultimate High Ground to fight from.