As the world progresses its journey into the space to make new discoveries and finding potential avenues for human survival, there is also a possibility of super powers trying to get ahead in this race further strengthening their position over the world.
Apart from making scientific explorations and understanding the universe, some of the world’s most powerful countries are also mulling taking their military might to the space to keep their rivals in check.
Ken Calvert, a California Republican, has also hinted at the United States’ army establishing a military base on the moon’s surface to fight potential threats from Russia and China in space.
The key House Republican congressman believes that China is “bracing for China to militarise the moon and Russia to put a megaton bomb in low Earth orbit,” reported The Washington Times.
Addressing an event comprising top government and tech officials in Washington, Calvert said that the US Space Force is expected to head to the moon too.
“Space Force will be actively involved in, I think, in going to the moon at some point and that discussion is ongoing,” the congressman said.
The politician’s comments came in light of his view that China, too, is going to begin militarising the moon, as the East Asian nation’s Chinese National Space Administration shared a video depicting its plans of constructing a base on the moon’s surface by the International Lunar Research Station.
“Obviously, China is probably going to militarise the moon, I have no doubt, so I suspect we will have a base on the moon also … maybe by the end of this decade.”
Both Russia and China, in 2021, announced plans related to ILRS.
The US congressman also spoke about news reports citing Russia’s alleged plan to place an “apparently one-megaton bomb into low-Earth orbit”.
“And that’s basically blackmail against the world if something happens that they don’t agree to, that they would threaten to have that bomb go off. And of course everything in low-Earth orbit would be destroyed because the radiation field it would create around the world,” he said.
