Will space junk start a war? That's what these scientists are saying, but I suspect the hyperbole is aimed at getting some action on the subject.
I do remember reading a science fiction story in which the author postulated the end of civilization after a space junk cascade took out all the communications satellites, which many nations interpreted as an act of war by some enemy. The result was a world war that reduced us all to Stone Age level. Considering that I read the story in the '60s, that author seems ... prescient...
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