Jan 11 1980
From The Space Library
Space News for this day. (1MB PDF)
U.S. Air Force Chief of Staff Gen. Lew Allen, Jr., said in an interview that a current chill in U.S.-USSR relations would accelerate the development of weapons designed to wage war in outer space or knock down USSR satellites for spying, navigation, and communications.
Allen said that, although he still hoped for an agreement on continued noninterference with satellites maintained in space by both the United States and the Soviet Union, the U.S. Air Force was experiencing pressure to move quickly on antisatellite weapons. He indicated that extra money would go for weapons already in the works such as the "flying tomato can" (operating by collision with a target) rather than more distant possibilities such as lasers. (W Post, Jan 11/80, A-1)
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