In any scenario, a nuclear weapon detonated in outer space wouldn’t have a localized impact like a direct hit with a missile strike. It would be indiscriminate, affecting all nations.
making modern life all but impossible. The resolution would have called on all countries not to develop or deploy nuclear arms or other weapons of mass destruction in space, as banned under a ...
Russia will “respond” if any nation attempts to militarize and deploy weapons in space, Yury Borisov, head of Russia’s state space corporation Roscosmos, said Friday, local media reported. “Russia has ...
Tory Bruno, the CEO of United Launch Alliance (ULA), published a blog post warning that China has weaponized space by placing "satellite killers" in Earth's orbit. These weapons could deliver a ...
UNITED NATIONS--The United States and Japan are sponsoring a U.N. Security Council resolution calling on all nations not to deploy or develop nuclear weapons in space, the U.S. ambassador ...
The 5-year-old U.S. Space Force is moving quickly to confront what is becoming its priority challenge: the threat of anti-satellite weapons (ASATs) from foreign adversaries, including Russia and ...
Russia is thought to be developing a satellite capable of launching a nuclear weapon that could unleash World War 3 in space ... on the planet's surface. If a modern atomic device detonated ...