The Kessler Syndrome triggered by anti-satellite attacks on Starlink poses a deeper challenge to crisis controllability. During nuclear crises in the Cold War, human decision-making served as the last “insurance” to control crisis escalation into nuclear war. If there was a risk of uncontrollable escalation, political leaders of both the United States and the Soviet Union had sufficient capability, ample time, and diverse means to terminate the crisis and avoid large-scale humanitarian disasters. However, once an anti-satellite attack on Starlink triggers the Kessler Syndrome, the resulting chain reaction will render crisis termination mechanisms ineffective. Due to the lack of necessary means to halt the chain collision process of debris, spacecraft debris will inevitably spread rapidly throughout the entire low Earth orbit, making it difficult to stop before causing catastrophic consequences.
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