As to the weapons a Space Force might use, proposed for Reagan's"Star Wars" program were hypervelocity guns, particle beams and laser weapons onboard orbiting battle platforms with onboard nuclear reactors or "super" plutonium systems providing the power for the weapons. General James Abramson, head of "Star Wars," or as it was officially termed Strategic Defense Initiative, said at a Symposium on Space Nuclear Power and Propulsion in Albuquerque, New Mexico in 1988 that "without reactors in orbit" there would need to be "a long" extension cord bringing up power up from Earth.
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