United States Developing Laser Beam Weapons in Australia

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United States Developing Laser Beam Weapons in Australia

AAP quoted Tuesday Helen Caldicott, Australian author and paediatrician, as saying that the U.S. was using its Pine Gap defence station near Alice Springs in the Northern Territory to develop dangerous laser beam weapons that could be launched from orbiting space stations.

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The United States is developing laser beam weapons in Australia, the Australian Associated Press AAP reported.

AAP quoted Tuesday Helen Caldicott, Australian author and paediatrician, as saying that the U.S. was using its Pine Gap defence station near Alice Springs in the Northern Territory to develop dangerous laser beam weapons that could be launched from orbiting space stations.

As the President of the California-based Nuclear Policy Research institute, Caldicott was commenting on the new U.S.- Russia agreement to reduce nuclear arms, which would see the U.S. and Russia cut their nuclear arsenals from 7,295 and 6,094 respectively to between 1,700 and 2,200 each.

With "34 U.S. military bases" in Australia, Caldicott said the agreement did not address the U.S. Star Wars program.

Dismissing the agreement as "window dressing", Caldicott said Pine Gap is part of the planning and designing of the Star Wars system and would be used for a nuclear war.

"The Americans are moving in to take over most of our military facilities," she said.

None of the Cold War weapons stockpiled by the U.S. had been destroyed and could easily be deployed despite the new agreement, she pointed out.

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