A Second Cold War

   "Mister President," said the Secretary of Defense. "India has shot down one of the dead floating satellites circling the Earth, in outer space."
   "India?" Interrupts the President. "They have sent an ballistic missile, into space, to shoot down an already dead satellite? But why?"
   "Let me explain Mister President." Replies the Secretary. "Remember your briefing on the Indian Space Research Organization and how their spacecraft are a miniaturized version of our space shuttle? The same look and specifications as our craft was, except smaller?"
   "Yes." Says the President. "But I don't how that has anything to do with shooting down a satellite."
   "Well, Mister President. India hasn't sent a ballistic missile into outer space, to shoot down that satellite, they have equipped their space shuttle with weapons!" An alarmed Secretary of Defense says.
    "What?" Asks a startled President. "Isn't that against the International Outer Space Treaty they signed back in Nineteen-sixty-seven I believe?"   "Yes, it is sir. They have clearly broken the treaty and international law."   The President looks down at desk in the Oval Office, deep in thought, then asks the Secretary, "Have they said anything publicly, why they would do this?"   "A press release from their space program states, 'Our use of a laser cannon to destroy harmful metallic debris in outer space is not, in anyway, a military show of force, or declaration of war against any nation of the world. Our decision, is based on purely humanitarian and safety precautions, due to the fact that the International Space Station was destroyed last June, with the lost of all hands on board, because of an old satellite floating around our upper atmosphere'."   "That is a bunch of poppycock." An angry President tells his Secretary of Defense. "Get me the Prime Minister of India, on the phone, right away."
   "I have asked your assistant to do precisely that, before I came in sir."
   "Thanks James." Says the President. "You are finally earning your paycheck."
   All of a sudden, in what could be considered a corner in the Oval Office, a red nineteen-eighties type land-line phone starts ringing loudly and flashing yellow, then to red, and then back and forth.
   It's the Kremlin calling.
   "Why isn't Vladimir calling me directly?" Asks the President to know one in particular. "After all we been through over the last few years, he can't possibly think we had anything to do with India shooting down a satellite?"
   "Sir," says the Secretary of Defense. "That phone hasn't rung since the cold war ended. If Vladimir is calling on the hot line, I don't think it will be on friendly terms?"
   "Its those damn Democrats. That's what it is." Says a confused looking President. "They probably told India it was OK to shoot down a satellite. If they want me, I am not going out without a fight. I'll blow up the whole damn country of India. They want a fight, those Democrats? I'll give them a fight. I'll start World War Three! That's what I'll do."


This is,Telling You There Is A World Treaty Keeping Weapons Out Of Space,But Who Will Be The First To Break It? Jim Hauenstein,
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