The Moon Was Shining, The Stars Were Bright…

... programmes are for some reason spent ineffectively (in which case the powers that be would have to admit to corruption on a grand scale, or that they are simply incompetent) or the programmes themselves do not have the potential for making breakthrough ... ... not happen by accident. In the 1970s, the Soviet Union looked into the possibility of developing a fully functioning “space weapon” on an orbital station that would have been capable of destroying the enemy’s ballistic missiles [2] ...