{"id":394175,"date":"2019-01-25T20:08:58","date_gmt":"2019-01-25T19:08:58","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/newswire\/us-igniting-arms-race-in-space-by-weaponizing-it\/"},"modified":"2019-01-25T20:08:58","modified_gmt":"2019-01-25T19:08:58","slug":"us-igniting-arms-race-in-space-by-weaponizing-it","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/newswire\/us-igniting-arms-race-in-space-by-weaponizing-it\/","title":{"rendered":"US igniting arms race in space by weaponizing it"},"content":{"rendered":"<div>\n<p><strong>Russia has warned that the United States\u2019 new space missile program would weaponize outer space and ignite an arms race there.<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>In a statement on Friday, the Russian Foreign Ministry said that the space program recently declared by the administration of US President Donald Trump would violate\u00a0the practice of using outer space for peaceful purposes.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cIt is obvious that the appearance of weapons in space would be contrary to the established practice of international cooperation in the exploration and use of outer space for peaceful purposes,\u201d the statement read.<\/p>\n<p>It compared the plan with the ill-fated \u201cStar Wars\u201d program launched by former President Ronald Reagan in the midst of Cold War rivalries between America and the former Soviet Union.<\/p>\n<blockquote>\n<p>\u201cWe are deeply disappointed that the US \u2014 instead of building a constructive dialog on strategic stability and the prevention of an arms race in space \u2014 chose to return to the next version&#8230;<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<\/div>\n<p> <a href=\"http:\/\/www.presstv.ir\/Detail\/2019\/01\/25\/586771\/Russia-US-outer-space-Star-Wars\">Read more<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Russia has warned that the United States\u2019 new space missile program would weaponize outer space and ignite an arms race there. In a statement on Friday, the Russian Foreign Ministry said that the space program recently declared by the administration of US President Donald Trump would violate\u00a0the practice of using outer space for peaceful purposes. [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[519],"tags":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-394175","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","6":"category-newswire"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/394175","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=394175"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/394175\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=394175"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=394175"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=394175"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}