1　「ミサイル防衛」の幻想と危険「核と宇宙の時代」の軍学共同への疑問

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Albert Einstein once said, “unleashed power of the atom has changed everything except our ways of thinking.” He further suggested that this gap would generate new unthinkable wars. His warning is especially pertinent in the arena of current missile defense. This article argues that despite the assurances of missile defense (MD) advocates, MD will invite a full space war and a new version of nuclear war, which would include nuclear blasts into outer space and various military attacks on nuclear power plants, thus causing nuclear blasts similar to that of the Fukushima disaster.

A new warfare system that the United States developed in the 21st century has been called “space-based network-centric” warfare. There are three Achillesʼ heels for the emerging semi-space war system: cyberspace, outer space, and nuclear power plants.

If a hostile group was to explode a nuclear warhead 200 km over Tokyo, the whole electronic infrastructure would be shut down by the vast electromagnetic puzzle waves. At the same time, the major satellite constellation system would be broken down sooner or later. Regarding nuclear sites, currently the most vulnerable is TEPCO’s Fukushima nuclear site #1. Even a suicide car bomb could easily destroy it.

MD not only fosters military buildup to the heavens but also encourages a missile target shift from on-ground to outer space and to nuclear sites, thus opening up a new version of nuclear war. Victims would not die instantly like they did in Hiroshima and Nagasaki but instead would die over a longer period as in Chernobyl.