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Feb 22, 2024 · What We Know About Russia’s Nuclear Space Weapon. And why it’s causing such a fuss. By Jack Detsch, a Pentagon and national security reporter at Foreign Policy. In this pool photograph...
3 days ago · Counterspace race The idea of weapons aimed at or positioned in space remains highly controversial, but it isn’t new. Decades ago, the US and the Soviet Union vied for technologies to knock-out ...
Mar 7, 2024 · Russia’s decision to detonate a nuclear weapon in space would almost certainly affect the Kremlin’s satellites, too. But even if Russia never used a nuclear space weapon, Moscow might view its deployment as a new source of leverage, a sword of Damocles it could dangle over every other state’s space systems.
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Feb 15, 2024 · A brief hubbub erupted in Washington this week over an unspecified “national security threat” that some sources now believe is related to a Russian plan to use nuclear weapons in space.
Feb 17, 2024 · Speculation that Russia might be developing a new space-based nuclear weapon has led to a flurry of discussion about what is going on - and what it could mean to see military installations in space. But space is already used for military purposes.
Feb 15, 2024 · The US has new intelligence on Russian military capabilities related to its efforts to deploy a nuclear anti-satellite system in space, according to multiple sources familiar with the...
Feb 21, 2024 · The United States believes Russia is developing a space-based anti-satellite nuclear weapon whose detonation could disrupt everything from military communications to phone-based ride...
