The American Ruling Class (ARC) had the technology to weaponize space long before the Soviets. The question is did they use it? America is run by sociopathic capitalists that care nothing for their own population. They let their own people live and die in the streets. They refuse to give their people universal health care. The capitalist medical system bankrupts millions of Americans. The ARC has refused to recognize and provide any of the economic rights outlined in the United Nations Universal Declaration of Human Rights to their people. They intentionally impoverish their own citizens in order to make them wage slaves. The real question is why wouldn't the American Ruling Class secretly weaponize space? They have no ethics or morals to stop them, so of course they did it.