Tomorrow, a private corporation will attempt to place a manned vehicle into space and return.
I have these visions of D. D. Harriman floating in my head. Destination Moon.
Soon, we will have nuclear powered battlestations in orbit. You watch. If you make space cheap enough, they'll put prisons in a La Grange point, hold Survivor episodes in a decaying orbit. Giant X-ray lasers pumped by small nuclear weapons will cruise abov ethe world enforcing the peace.
What, you think an xray laser would be misused? Sure. But it isn't an invisible sword of death that will erase square miles of urban blight. I mean, if CNN has a report that someone exploded into vapor, and the sky above him turned violet for a few seconds along with a wash of heat and low thundering rumbles, then you can be rest assured someone has fired the weapon.