Will it be ground based or sea based, or will some elements be based in space (a big worry for Moscow, which fears that a space-based system could be expanded into a much vaster shield)?
Because parts of the defensive system that Reagan advocated would be based in space, the proposed system was dubbed "Star Wars," after the space weaponry of a popular motion picture of the same name.
He has helped a German manufacturer design folding patterns for airbags and advised astronomers on how to fold up a huge flat-screen lens for a telescope based in space.
Not since 1983, when President Reagan envisioned a defense based in space that would render nuclear weapons obsolete, has an issue of military technology seized the imagination of American policymakers and politicians and alarmed America's friends and foes.
Their anxiety is increased by the knowledge that some of the missile defense systems currently under consideration -- especially those to be based in space -- would have the inherent capability to attack satellites.
But it would prohibit the testing and development of ABM systems or components of such systems that are based in space, at sea, in the air or on land, if they are mobile.
But rather than set it on an island, it's based in space.
They are presented and discussed always together with a dimension of geometric interpretation and visualisation - given his epistemological viewpoint of mathematics being based in space intuition.
In Moonraker, the villain Hugo Drax had an obsession with starting human civilisation over again on Earth, using specially chosen "superior human specimens" based in space.
The first issue is whether "space" means weapons that are based in space, or weapons that are aimed at stuff in space regardless of where they're fired from.
