Points: Star wars of fiction becoming fact — US space programmes — USSR
counter offensive.
Fiction is becoming fact. George Lucas’s widely popular screenplay Star Wars seems now not a fiction but a pre-view of the actual space warfare of the future. Long ago H.G. Welts and Jutes Vernes in their science fictions gave imaginary descriptions of wars between planets and distant stars. But now both USA and USSR are actually preparing for some such wars in the outer space. These, too, are popularly known as ‘Star Wars’.
President Reagan is eager to develop a space-based ballistic missile defence system which is officially called Strategic Defence Initiative. The idea is to intercept and destroy the enemy’s ballistic missiles before they can hit the target. This is a defensive measure. The offensive measure will consist of a device of attack from the space with orbital electromagnetic rail guns. Nearly two hundred floating war stations’ in the outer space are envisaged for this, each costing about ten crore US dollars.
Mikhail Gorbachov of Russia, while condemning the US space war programmes, has hinted that USSR would also install counter-offensive devices in space, if necessary, against US Star War programmes. Nobody will minimize the gravity of the threat and the possibility of a total destruction of this planet. Critics of the Star War programme, however, point out that any space-based defence system is also vulnerable to ‘space mines’. According to scientists, a single nuclear blast in outer space will easily destroy laser weapons, particle beams and satellites. The feasibility of Star War itself is thus called into question.
Above all, the peace-loving men all over the world are demanding an immediate disbanding of all programmes of Star Wars, The recent treaty between Gorbachev and Reagan to destroy middle-range missiles is a hopeful step in that direction.
Fiction is becoming fact. George Lucas’s widely popular screenplay Star Wars seems now not a fiction but a pre-view of the actual space warfare of the future. Long ago H.G. Welts and Jutes Vernes in their science fictions gave imaginary descriptions of wars between planets and distant stars. But now both USA and USSR are actually preparing for some such wars in the outer space. These, too, are popularly known as ‘Star Wars’.
President Reagan is eager to develop a space-based ballistic missile defence system which is officially called Strategic Defence Initiative. The idea is to intercept and destroy the enemy’s ballistic missiles before they can hit the target. This is a defensive measure. The offensive measure will consist of a device of attack from the space with orbital electromagnetic rail guns. Nearly two hundred floating war stations’ in the outer space are envisaged for this, each costing about ten crore US dollars.
Mikhail Gorbachov of Russia, while condemning the US space war programmes, has hinted that USSR would also install counter-offensive devices in space, if necessary, against US Star War programmes. Nobody will minimize the gravity of the threat and the possibility of a total destruction of this planet. Critics of the Star War programme, however, point out that any space-based defence system is also vulnerable to ‘space mines’. According to scientists, a single nuclear blast in outer space will easily destroy laser weapons, particle beams and satellites. The feasibility of Star War itself is thus called into question.
Above all, the peace-loving men all over the world are demanding an immediate disbanding of all programmes of Star Wars, The recent treaty between Gorbachev and Reagan to destroy middle-range missiles is a hopeful step in that direction.
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