{"id":2986,"date":"2018-01-23T23:00:54","date_gmt":"2018-01-23T23:00:54","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blogs.plymouth.ac.uk\/dcss\/?p=2986"},"modified":"2018-01-23T23:00:54","modified_gmt":"2018-01-23T23:00:54","slug":"can-japans-epsilon-rocket-be-used-as-an-icbm","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blogs.plymouth.ac.uk\/dcss\/2018\/01\/23\/can-japans-epsilon-rocket-be-used-as-an-icbm\/","title":{"rendered":"CAN JAPAN\u2019S EPSILON ROCKET BE USED AS AN ICBM ?"},"content":{"rendered":"

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Sourced : Asia Times<\/p>\n

By Doug Tsuruoka<\/p>\n

On January 17, Japan fired an earth observation satellite into orbit aboard an Epsilon rocket, the workhorse of the country\u2019s civilian space program.<\/p>\n

The Epsilon is a Japanese solid-fuel rocket designed to launch scientific satellites. It can place a 1.2 ton payload into low earth orbit.<\/p>\n

John Pike, a space security expert, says the peaceful rocket has another possible use, however. He says it can be turned into a nuclear delivery vehicle, providing Japanese defense planners with a ready-made way to drop nuclear warheads on Chinese and North Korean cities.<\/p>\n

\u201cIt would take Japan less than a year to do this,\u201d Pike told Asia Times. \u201cThe Epsilon is a big, solid rocket. All they have to do is take the satellites off the front end and add the warheads.\u201d<\/p>\n

Read more at : http:\/\/www.atimes.com\/article\/can-japans-epsilon-rocket-used-icbm\/<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Sourced : Asia Times By Doug Tsuruoka On January 17, Japan fired an earth observation satellite into orbit aboard an Epsilon rocket, the workhorse of the country\u2019s civilian space program. The Epsilon is a Japanese solid-fuel rocket designed to launch scientific satellites. It can place a 1.2 ton payload into low earth orbit. John Pike,… Continue reading CAN JAPAN\u2019S EPSILON ROCKET BE USED AS AN ICBM ?<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":2987,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[4],"tags":[1785,926],"class_list":["post-2986","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-defence-industry","tag-epsilon","tag-japan","entry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.plymouth.ac.uk\/dcss\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2986","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.plymouth.ac.uk\/dcss\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.plymouth.ac.uk\/dcss\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.plymouth.ac.uk\/dcss\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.plymouth.ac.uk\/dcss\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2986"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.plymouth.ac.uk\/dcss\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2986\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2988,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.plymouth.ac.uk\/dcss\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2986\/revisions\/2988"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.plymouth.ac.uk\/dcss\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/2987"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.plymouth.ac.uk\/dcss\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2986"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.plymouth.ac.uk\/dcss\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2986"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.plymouth.ac.uk\/dcss\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2986"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}