Dark Skies

By Daniel Deudney

Book Overview

Dark Skies provides the first comprehensive and balanced assessment of the space enterprise, past, present and future. It demolishes widely-held optimistic assumptions about the desirability of many major space activities, actual and prospective. Most consequentially, the hiding-in-plain-sight use of outer space as a corridor for long-range bombardment has increased the probability of catastrophic nuclear war. Contrary to the widespread claim that sustainable colonies on other celestial bodies are necessary for human survival from large-scale disasters on Earth, Dark Skies shows that colonization itself poses many severe threats and should be avoided. Instead an Earth-oriented space program should be pursued.

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0190903341
• ISBN13: 9780190903343
• Release Date: March 2020
• Publisher: Academic
• Length: 464 Pages
• Weight: 1.60 lbs.
• Dimensions: 1.6" x 6.4" x 9.4"