Nuclear armament of the U.S. and the USSR in the 1940s; establishment of NATO and the Warsaw Pact; the Space Race; the Cuban ...

The military wanted to test the electromagnetic impacts of nuclear weapons in space. In 1962 they lit up the sky.

The Russian site, called Sergiev Posad-6, had been quiet for decades, but it had a notorious Cold War past ... from biological weapons.” In the satellite photos, ground-clearing becomes visible ...

But China in particular "has counterspace weapons capabilities intended to target U.S. and allied satellites," the report states. Those could pose a massive threat to American space operations and ...