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The Air Force has requested, and President Bush will probably issue, a national-security directive on the military use of space. Space opens up new possibilities for missile defense, among other things: Space-based interceptors could target a missile during its slow ascent over enemy territory. The fact that we don't know exactly what the Air Force wants hasn't stopped the usual disciples of peace from bristling at it, whatever it is. Their squeamishness about "weaponizing" space is hard to understand. To begin with, space is already weaponized. ...