“I did not create something that could cause a nuclear war”: Musk gave control of Starlink to the Pentagon

Musk handed over control of Starlink to the Pentagon/Channel 24 Collage

American billionaire Elon Musk is worried that his development could bring the world closer to nuclear war. Actually, in order to sleep with a clear conscience, he completely transferred control of the Starlink system to the US Department of Defense

Musk's biographer, Walter Isaacson, talked about what will be in the new book about the outstanding inventor of our time. In particular, he noted that Elon Musk gave up control of Starlink because he was creating systems for civilian needs, not military ones.

“Why am I in this war? “

Note that Isaacson is the author of best-selling books about Steve Jobs and Albert Einstein. For the past two years, he has been following Elon Musk to release a book. During one of the late evening conversations, the richest businessman asked a question about why he was involved in the war.

I created Starlink so people could relax, watch Netflix movies and play video games. “I did not have the goal of creating something that could cause a nuclear war,” the biographer retold Musk’s words.

In addition, he noted that the entrepreneur decided to sell and transfer full control over a certain amount of Starlink equipment to the Pentagon.

In my opinion, this is correct… It no longer controls the geofencing, it no longer controls the terms of use. I think it was his way of saying, “I have to get out of this.”

It should be said that since the beginning of the full-scale invasion, the Ukrainian military on the front line has been using Starlink to gain access to the Internet and strike enemy targets .

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Musk at the center of the scandal

• It has recently been suggested that Musk ordered the shutdown of Starlink in the Crimea region in 2022 in order to thwart a Ukrainian attack on the Russian navy.
• It is possible that the billionaire was afraid that a hostile state could respond to such attacks with nuclear weapons. But Musk himself assured that his systems never worked off the coast of the peninsula.
• At the same time, the Main Intelligence Directorate stated that Ukraine does not yet have confirmation that the information about the corresponding order from the entrepreneur is true.< /li>