Absolutely not. War is stopped by having the strongest military. The current global trend of letting everyone do anything they want is working out so well.
It's true that china has been developing anti-satellite weapons recently (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/ASAT_program_of_China). To respond in kind with "kinetic" weapons as mentioned sets a dangerous precedent for kessler syndrome in the same way that nuclear proliferation does for nuclear winter.
I can't think of anything more depressing than bringing war to outer space.
The international space station was supposed to be a way the U.S. and Russia, and other countries, could grow closer through cooperation and a shared spirit of adventure and discovery.
If we are ever to have, say, fusion-powered spaceships to colonize the solar system, we'll have to leave war behind. A fusion-powered spaceship is just a very controllable hydrogen bomb. If we ever want to have hundreds or thousands of them traveling around in the solar system, we'll have to figure out some way to absolutely prohibit them from being used as weapons.
The kinds of energies needed to travel between planets is more than enough energy to destroy anything faster than we can create it.
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[ 4.5 ms ] story [ 34.4 ms ] threadThe international space station was supposed to be a way the U.S. and Russia, and other countries, could grow closer through cooperation and a shared spirit of adventure and discovery.
If we are ever to have, say, fusion-powered spaceships to colonize the solar system, we'll have to leave war behind. A fusion-powered spaceship is just a very controllable hydrogen bomb. If we ever want to have hundreds or thousands of them traveling around in the solar system, we'll have to figure out some way to absolutely prohibit them from being used as weapons.
The kinds of energies needed to travel between planets is more than enough energy to destroy anything faster than we can create it.