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War from Space?

World Peace Forum Vancouver, Canada / June 2006

Global Network Against Weapons and Nuclear Power in Space

The World Peace Forum met in June 2006 in Vancouver, Canada.  It brought together activists, delegates, speakers, and artists from over 90 countries in a six-day program intent upon creating and reinforcing the elements for a global culture of peace.

Global Network Against Weapons & Nuclear Power in Space is an international organization of activists, scientists, and engineers opposing the rapidly accelerating weaponization of space and the dangerous expansion of nuclear power into earth orbit.

The participants present the current and intended development of US space weapons and the aggressive and offensive nature of US policy initiated in the Reagan Star Wars era, continued by every president since - Democrat or Republican - and now reaching a critical mass with astronomical risk of catastrophic consequences.  

Further, they present alternatives redefining space policy, diplomacy and conversion of weapons development to a global effort to provide clean, safe renewable energy, environmental protection, and proactive responses to impending climate change as well as the range of social justice issues including health care, education and poverty. 

United States space policy clearly states an intent to control space and deny access to it by anyone it percieves to be a threat or simply "hostile to US national inyterests."  The Bush administration's obvious disdain for international law, organizations and treaties to which it is a signatory, such as the ABM, NPT, Geneva Conventions, United Nations, World Court, etc, confirms the US intent.  The recent brinksmanship with Russia over the development and placement of ABM systems on their borders removes any reasonable doubt that the US intends to deploy offensive weapons in space, thereby provoking a new arms race to the detriment of our own, not to mention international, security and the peril of humanity.

Eric Herter is a a media activist and producer of this program.  Visit his website, Iraq Eyewitness, for his extensive coverage of Iraq related issues, interviews with journalists, activists and others with direct experience in Iraq and soldiers that have served there.

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