Hypersonic Cruise Vehicle

A RECENT SHIFT IN U.S. MILITARY STRATEGY AND PROVOCATIVE ACTIONS BY CHINA THREATEN TO IGNITE A NEW ARMS RACE IN SPACE. BUT WOULD PLACING WEAPONS IN SPACE BE IN ANYONE’S NATIONAL INTEREST?

The Pentagon's plan to hit anywhere on Earth, in just an hour or two, just got a $100 million boost from Congress. As the Washington Post notes, "the House-Senate conference report on the fiscal 2008 defense appropriations bill" provides a hundred large for a "'prompt global strike' program that could deliver a conventional, precision-guided warhead anywhere in the world within two hours."