Space Wars … The First Six Hours of World War III by William B. Scott, Michael J. Coumatos and William J. Birnes
In a series of near future scenarios derived from war-games played by teams from all branches of the military, Space Wars
dramatizes the first six hours of World War III-a nuclear nightmare initiated by Iran. Battles will be won and lost inside the
circuits of on-orbit space satellites and the computers that control them. Viruses will be unleashed through electronic
conduits, such as secure digital telephone lines and will eat the codes that control the targeting of our most powerful missiles.
We will try to respond with weapons still cloaked from public view, such as a neutral-buoyancy triangular-shaped aircraft or high-flying missile platforms. Huge hawk-like space planes in low earth-orbit will attempt to fire rapid-burst lasers into the optics of enemy satellites, blinding the sentries and paralyzing million-man armies and huge naval armadas. Homing in on the heat signatures of missiles rising from the desert floor, these space planes—scheduled to deploy before 2025—will seek to fire direct-impact tungsten rods into the enemy missiles, obliteration them completely.
This is not science fiction. The next world war has already begun.
