{"id":56284,"date":"2021-11-19T22:48:40","date_gmt":"2021-11-19T14:48:40","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/wp-productionenv-bjg9h2g2bgg5b8aa.southeastasia-01.azurewebsites.net\/news\/clarke-foundation-lifetime-award-winner-dr-michio-kaku-calls-for-a-new-global-space-treaty\/"},"modified":"2021-11-19T22:48:40","modified_gmt":"2021-11-19T14:48:40","slug":"clarke-foundation-lifetime-award-winner-dr-michio-kaku-calls-for-a-new-global-space-treaty","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/starpath.global\/news\/clarke-foundation-lifetime-award-winner-dr-michio-kaku-calls-for-a-new-global-space-treaty\/","title":{"rendered":"Clarke Foundation Lifetime Award Winner Dr. Michio Kaku Calls for a New Global Space Treaty"},"content":{"rendered":"<\/p>\n<p>One of the world\u2019s most renowned scientists and theoretical physicists, Dr. Michio Kaku, is urging world leaders to update the multilateral 1967 Outer Space Treaty in light of Russia\u2019s recent ASAT weapon test that destroyed a small satellite in Low-Earth Orbit (LEO). On the evening he received <strong>The<\/strong> <strong>Arthur C. Clarke Foundation<\/strong>\u2018s Lifetime Achievement Award, Dr. Kaku sat down with <em>Via Satellite<\/em> for an interview and outlined how aggressive military action in space leads to disastrous results for the entire world.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cOnce war starts in space, it\u2019s going to last maybe an hour,\u201d said Dr. Kaku. \u201cIt will be an hour before somebody pulls the trigger and all-out nuclear war starts. In a situation where a country sees a blip heading toward outer space that looks like a weapon, that country can\u2019t afford to wait to determine whether or not it is a nuclear weapon.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Dr. Kaku explained that the best way world leaders can avoid complete annihilation through space warfare is to update the 1967 Outer Space Treaty. The historic document, signed by the United States, United Kingdom, the former Soviet Union, and endorsed by 111 other countries, banned nations from claiming territory in space (such as the Moon). It also banned the use of nuclear weapons in space.<\/p>\n<p>The nuclear weapons ban is exactly what needs to be updated, according to Dr. Kaku. \u201cIt is incredible that the Outer Space Treaty has held up for more than 50 years,\u201d he said. \u201cBut, they didn\u2019t envision back in the \u201960s that modern anti-satellite weapons would use laser beams, nails, and kinetic energy to destroy spacecraft. The only solution to this crisis is to ban all weapons in space.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Even if space warfare doesn\u2019t escalate to the point of nuclear war, it can quickly and easily decimate economies. Dr. Kaku explained how this would happen using a Chinese proverb, \u201cDon\u2019t pick up a rock just to drop it on your own foot.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>\u201cAny nation that instigates warfare in space is going to suffer the consequences of it,\u201d he said. \u201cThe United States should be especially conscious of this fact. Over half of the satellites in outer space are linked to the United States economy. We can\u2019t afford to start a war in space. We should be leading efforts to establish peace.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Dr. Kaku is the science correspondent for national \u201cCBS This Morning,\u201d and an international best selling author of 10 books. His most recent book, \u201c<i>The God Equation: The Quest for a Theory of Everything,\u201d (2021) <\/i>explores the history of unification theories of physics and presents a new 11-dimensional string theory of relativity and quantum gravity called \u201cThe God Equation.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>His weekly science radio show reaches 100 U.S. cities and he has appeared on numerous science specials on global television networks. He was honored by The Arthur C. Clarke Foundation on Wednesday evening for \u201cexceptional contributions as a theoretical physicist, futurist, and science popularizer.<\/p>\n<p>The full interview with Dr. Kaku will be presented in an upcoming episode of <em>Via Satellite\u2019s On Orbit Podcast<\/em> \u2014 a bi-weekly program that presents the people and ideas driving our future in space.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>One of the world\u2019s most renowned scientists and theoretical physicists, Dr. Michio Kaku, is urging world leaders to update the multilateral 1967 Outer Space Treaty in light of Russia\u2019s recent ASAT weapon test that destroyed a small satellite in Low-Earth Orbit (LEO). On the evening he received The Arthur C. Clarke Foundation\u2018s Lifetime Achievement Award, [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":56285,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"inline_featured_image":false,"footnotes":"","_links_to":"","_links_to_target":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-56284","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-news"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/starpath.global\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/56284"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/starpath.global\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/starpath.global\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/starpath.global\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/starpath.global\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=56284"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/starpath.global\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/56284\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/starpath.global\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/56285"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/starpath.global\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=56284"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/starpath.global\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=56284"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/starpath.global\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=56284"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}