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Opinion: For space issues, what happened to diplomacy?

San Francisco Chronicle: Hiding behind the faux skirts of public safety, the Pentagon has blasted one of its own spy satellites out of the sky. This provocative act is bad policy and bad politics.

For background see also An Errant Satellite Is Gone, but Questions Linger (New York Times)

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Posted by Physics Today on February 22, 2008 9:47 AM |

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