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Battle lines in the final frontier

Clipped to the Drawing Board by Adam Crighton

An arms race in space could prove catastrophic, and has the potential to throw our societies back into the 1950s, writes Tom Allard.
The Space Age began with the launch of Sputnik 1 into orbit and an outbreak of terror in the US.

It was the height of the Cold War, October 1957, a time of Joseph McCarthy's communist witch-hunts, "duck and cover" nuclear drills and Hollywood's obsession with fantastical sci-fi flicks.

Then came the shock of the Soviet Union's satellite launch.
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