The authors warn that a proposed change to the U.S. military space policy allowing the deployment offensive anti-satellite weapons and space-based weapons for attacking targets on Earth would initiate a new arms race.
Insecure nations are taking the nuclear technology provided for peaceful civilian purposes by the United States and other countries and using it to make military bombs.
U.S. military researchers are designing a fail-safe network for the continuous operation of legions of unmanned military drones.
Interior Department employees say more than a dozen of their colleagues have been working in secure facilities outside Washington, D.C., as part of a continuity of operations plan. The plan's purpose: to make sure the U.S. government can operate if cataclysm strikes.