the government doesn't realize what a literal gold mine they're potentially sitting on, and platinum, and diamonds, and rare earths.....
instead of build bombs in space, build solar powered smelters. send scouts out in small ships with boosters and cables, send asteroids into orbit where they can be picked up and smelted down, and you can build anything you want in space, without having to pay to lift it out of the earths gravity well. sounds like science fiction, but i'm pretty sure we have the gear to do it now, if we could get the fuck off our asses and do something