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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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 ...
Chinese Scientists Have Developed a Powerful New Microwave Weapon: A Converged Energy Beam
In 2024, seven vehicles in western China each transmitted a high-powered microwave beam that converged precisely in both time ...
The Sun4d
Space nukes, solar lasers & ‘gravity tractors’…how mankind could stop asteroid 2024 YR4 from smashing into Earth
While the idea of sending a nuclear weapon into space to stop a potentially deadly asteroid sounds like fiction thanks to movies like Armageddon, it is one of the options available to scientists.
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Q&A: what would orbiting nuclear weapons mean for the space economy?
US President Joe Biden last week stated that Russia had the capacity to launch a nuclear weapons system into space but that it would not pose a nuclear threat to Earth and may never go ahead.
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Russia’s space weapon: Is it nuclear and does it pose a threat?
The US government has privately warned lawmakers and European allies that Russia plans to launch a space weapon with possible nuclear capabilities, according to a flurry of reports. The news broke ...
SpaceNews13d
SpaceX veterans’ hypersonic weapons startup secures $100 million
ORLANDO, Fla. — A California-based startup led by former SpaceX executives announced Jan. 29 it has raised $100 million to ...
Daily Mail1mon
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 ...
when a series of bombshell reports in American media revealed that US intelligence officials suspected Russia was working on plans to deploy nuclear weapons in space via satellite.
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A Russian Wake-Up Call in Space
If it wanted to keep its promises under the 1967 Outer Space Treaty, it would not be moving aggressively to put weapons with a nuclear component in space. We need to keep enhancing our own ...
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UN General Assembly passes Russia’s resolution on non-deployment of weapons in space
The resolution, titled "No first placement of weapons in outer space" was supported by 127countries, while 50 voted against and 6 abstained UNITED NATIONS, December 5. /TASS/. The United Nations ...