The Coming China Wars: Where They Will Be Fought and How They Can Be Won, Revised and Expanded Edition

When Sci-Fi Becomes Sci-Fact—From Rail Guns to Rocks in Space

The pursuit of science, despite its social benefits, is not a social virtue; its practitioners can be men so self-centered as to be lacking in social responsibility.

—Robert Heinlein

While China’s development of anti-satellite weapons capabilities and its own GPS system are clearly designed to neutralize or destroy America’s current superiority in space, the deployment of nuclear and other weapons in space is another matter entirely. Indeed, it is a grotesque and ultimate escalation of the nuclear arms race that continues to be conducted on planet Earth. That said, “nukes in space” might not even be necessary as an ultimate space weapon. In this regard, the science fiction novels ...