上周,五角大楼强烈否认所谓苏联使用激光器使美国的预警卫星破坏或失效一事,声称没有丝毫证据证明苏联干扰美国卫星。这次否认是在两篇杂志报导之后发布的,因为这两篇杂志重复了去年最初的报导:苏联境内的空间激光器照射并至少致盲了一颗美国国防支持计划的导弹预警卫星。国防部长拉姆斯菲尔德那时曾说,没有证据支持 Last week, the Pentagon strongly denied that the so-called Soviet Union used lasers to destroy or invalidate the U.S. early-warning satellites, claiming that there is absolutely no evidence that the Soviet Union interfered with U.S. satellites. The denial came after the publication of two magazines that repeated the first reports from last year that the space laser in the Soviet Union had illuminated and at least blinded a US missile defense missile for missile defense programs. Defense Secretary Donald Rumsfeld said at the time there was no evidence to support it