Are We on the Verge of an Arms Race in Space?
Rumors of a Russian space nuke, along with other satellite-targeting weapons, have made geopolitical tensions extend into ...
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Russia’s space weapon: Is it nuclear and does it pose a threat?
The Russian space weapon may simply use nuclear power to provide ... However, if the weapon is capable of knocking satellites out of orbit, these objects could fall to the planet’s surface ...
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The U.S. should stop holding back its military potential in space
Space weapons the U.S. has heretofore ruled out could play important roles in enhancing the nation’s overall military superiority and ability to deter hostile actions in space and other domains.
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Trump’s ‘Iron Dome for America’ plan would put weapons in space, at a big cost
The first Trump administration floated a space weapon concept in March 2018: a neutral particle beam in space. But it ...
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Amid an Escalating Arms Race in Space with Russia and China, Is the U.S. Falling Behind?
sticking to their preferance for a new treaty that would prohibit any kind of weapon in space. There may be a way to navigate out of this diplomatic impasse, with U.S.-allied governments taking ...
Iran's covert nuclear agency found operating out of top space program launch sites
Sources embedded in Iran uncover "large scale" personnel and operations affiliated with Iran's nuclear program are now ...
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Star wars threat to the West: How doomsday EMP space nukes could cripple US and allies by 'frying' critical infrastructure and killing vital satellites - with Putin already ...
The resulting surge of energy from the huge radioactive explosion would knock out critical infrastructure ... working on plans to deploy nuclear weapons in space via satellite.
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Q&A: what would orbiting nuclear weapons mean for the space economy?
failed when it spun out of control and crashed into the lunar surface. The failure underscored the post-Soviet decline of a once mighty space program. A nuclear weapon orbiting in space would seem ...
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The Space Force Is Calling for Space Weapons
A senior Space Force general is demanding that the service have its own 'fires' in space, a term that refers to weapon systems designed to create specific effects on a target. This ...
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Space ICBMs Nuclear Weapons
Here’s What You Need to Remember: Hypersonic weapons and the kinds of faster-moving ICBMs expected in the future are also systems from which the architects of new generations of space weapons ...
Kremlin Replaces Russian Space Boss After Tenure Scarred by Failed Moonshot
MOSCOW (Reuters) - The Kremlin on Thursday removed the head of Russia's space agency after a tenure of less than three years ...
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Amid an Escalating Arms Race in Space with Russia and China, Is the U.S. Falling Behind?
Was it a worrisome weapons program being advanced ... “There’s not a lot of information out there,” said Victoria Samson, a space policy expert at the Secure World Foundation in Broomfield, Colorado, ...