{"id":124220,"date":"2021-06-24T18:24:17","date_gmt":"2021-06-25T01:24:17","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2021\/06\/sword-and-shield-defending-against-an-american-anti-satellite-weapon-during-the-cold-war"},"modified":"2021-06-24T18:24:17","modified_gmt":"2021-06-25T01:24:17","slug":"sword-and-shield-defending-against-an-american-anti-satellite-weapon-during-the-cold-war","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2021\/06\/sword-and-shield-defending-against-an-american-anti-satellite-weapon-during-the-cold-war","title":{"rendered":"Sword and shield: defending against an American anti-satellite weapon during the Cold War"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a class=\"aligncenter blog-photo\" href=\"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog.images\/sword-and-shield-defending-against-an-american-anti-satellite-weapon-during-the-cold-war.jpg\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p>In September 1983, the CIA\u2019s Directorate of Intelligence produced a report: <a href=\"https:\/\/www.archives.gov\/files\/declassification\/iscap\/pdf\/2012-151-doc01-03.pdf\">\u201cSoviet Satellite Defense Against the US Miniature Vehicle Antisatellite Weapon.\u201d<\/a> The report stated that \u201cOur estimates of Soviet technological advances and of Soviet perceptions of the ASAT threat indicate a moderate likelihood that the Soviets will develop additional defensives\u2014decoys, electronic countermeasures, and signature reduction\u2014by the late 1990s.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>In September 1983, the CIA\u2019s Directorate of Intelligence produced a report: \u201cSoviet Satellite Defense Against the US Miniature Vehicle Antisatellite Weapon.\u201d The report stated that \u201cOur estimates of Soviet technological advances and of Soviet perceptions of the ASAT threat indicate a moderate likelihood that the Soviets will develop additional defensives\u2014decoys, electronic countermeasures, and signature reduction\u2014by [\u2026]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":427,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[9],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-124220","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-military"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/124220","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/427"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=124220"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/124220\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=124220"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=124220"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=124220"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}