Major powers are “rapidly militarizing space” to prepare for a prospective conflict that could have devastating effects in the absence of norms to restrict such weapons, according to a senior Democrat.

“I suspect the norm is ‘he who is strongest will win at the end of the process,’ and we’ll all be dead,” California Rep. John Garamendi said during a congressional hearing on space policy.

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