It was adopted by a recorded vote of 163 in favor to none against, with 3 abstentions. The three that abstained were the Federated States of Micronesia, Israel and the United States of America. Space is in the nation's economic interest . Keith Hall, Assistant Secretary of the Air Force for Space, in a 1997 speech to the National Space Club . It is clear to most of the world that the Son of Star Wars, the Nuclear Missile Defense option, is also not about defense, but it is another way for the US to exert its global hegemony.
Several documents reveal the plans.
The multicolored cover of Vision for 2020 shows a weapon shooting a laser beam from space and zapping a target below. Integrating Space Forces into warfighting capabilities across the full spectrum of conflict. Now it is time to rule space. One doesn't have to be particularly unfriendly to the U.S. to feel uncomfortable. More naturally hostile or suspicious countries could well feel they have been given no choice but to develop their own antisatellite weapons in an attempt to blind U.S. satellites, even though, since the U.S. will far outspend them, the effort would become an ever receding goal.