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That space could be a vector for other threats became clear from the dawn of the space race.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">A missile that can carry a satellite into orbit could carry a much deadlier payload to somewhere else on Earth. And so space became both a place to put early warning systems and the path by which weapons would pass through on their way to doomsday. In order to prepare for new threats from or through the great beyond, the Pentagon spent $22 million between 2007 and 2012 researching a number of speculative threats under an \u201cAdvanced Aerospace Threat Identification Program.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">How speculative? One of the studies was called \u201cWarp Drive, Dark Energy, and the Manipulation of Extra Dimensions.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">On Jan. 16, 2019, the Defense Intelligence Agency <a href=\"https:\/\/fas.org\/blogs\/secrecy\/2019\/01\/aatip-list\/\" target=_blank>released a list of 38 research titles <\/a>funded by the \u201cAdvanced Aerospace Threat Identification Program,\u201d which includes the above title on warp drives, one on invisibility cloaking, and another about stargates. All three are technologies that have found a home in fiction, powering the spaceships of the Star Trek universe, the in-fiction specific weapons of the Romulans and Klingons, as well as the entire \u201cStargate\u201d franchise. The research papers were just one part of the Advanced Aerospace Threat Identification Program, which also looked at unidentified flying objects, included <a href=\"https:\/\/www.nytimes.com\/2017\/12\/16\/us\/politics\/pentagon-program-ufo-harry-reid.html\" target=_blank>recovered alloys of unknown origin<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">The program, funded secretly largely at the discretion of then-Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid, with backing from Ted Stevens of Alaska and Daniel Inouye of Hawaii, could easily be written off as a fanciful jaunt to see how reality matches up with fiction. Yet of note in the DIA\u2019s list of 38 studies are many others with some more immediate applications.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">\u201cAdvanced Nuclear Propulsion for Manned Deep Space Missions\u201d and \u201cPositron Aerospace Propulsion\u201d have both been studied in some form by NASA, and \u201cLaser Lightcraft Nanosatellites\u201d is a technology explored by the Air Force Research Laboratory. Whether or not DIA\u2019s efforts summarized or expanded upon existing research in these topics is likely the subject of future Freedom of Information Act requests, and indicates that not everything studied under the program was speculative fiction.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">\u201cDetection and High Resolution Tracking of Vehicles at Hypersonic Velocities,\u201d a paper authored by Dr. W. Culbreth of University of Nevada Las Vegas, is one that could perhaps apply to tracking vessels of unknown origins, but the contents could also inform the modern arms race around hypersonic weapons.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Matching the modern threat environment, a study on the \u201cCognitive Limits on Simultaneous Control of Multiple Unmanned Spacecraft\u201d may have foreshadowed thinking about controlling autonomous swarms of robots, adding in the unique challenges of operating outside the atmosphere.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">The last study in the list appears twice: \u201cState of the Art and Evolution of High Energy Laser Weapons\u201d has both a classified secret\/NOFORN (no foreign nationals) version and an unclassified, for official use only version. Research in energy weapons has continued at a steady clip since the end of funding for the Advanced Aerospace Threat Identification Program; whatever knowledge these papers hold may be more akin to a time capsule than a peek in the future.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">The implications of the entire trove will have to wait for a full exploration of the revealed contents. 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