2024-12-10
12 分钟This is the Opinions, a show that brings you a mix of voices from New York Times opinion.
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Hi, I'm Bill Hennigan.
I cover national security for the New York Times opinion section.
For the last year, I've been writing on nuclear weapons in the modern age for our series at the Brink.
And one of the things that people don't often think about when it's related to nuclear weapons is outer space.
What differentiates space from other domains, you know, such as air or sea,
is the fact that there are no real rules of the road.
There are no basic norms of behavior when it comes to space.
In his second term,
it's imperative
for President Elect Trump to lead an international effort to codify rules to prevent a catastrophe unfolding
in a outer space,
eliminating the various satellite systems that we all depend upon.
A lot of analysts and military people and diplomatic people are just saying it's just time to make this normal,
like we do with all the other aspects of our functional lives.
In 2019, Trump established the Space Force as its own uniformed service,
just as the Marines and the Navy and the air for and what the Space Force does,
you know, it became a punchline for a lot of Americans.