Does anyone remember the movie Meteor starring Sean Connery and Natalie Wood?
There was a huge meteor headed toward Earth and the USSR and the US had to combine their nukes in space to thwart an ELE.
Well that was fiction there were no nukes in space or so we are told…..but that just may not be the case….
A Russian spacecraft launched higher than most satellites has long had the Pentagon worried — and new revelations about what it contains have made those concerns all the greater.
Launched in February 2022 just a few weeks before Ukraine was invaded, Russia’s Cosmos 2553 spacecraft is nominally built to test out “newly developed onboard instruments and systems.” According to new reporting from the New York Times, however, the mysterious satellite system contains a “dummy warhead” — a precursor of what could come should the Russians decide to arm the craft for real.
As scary as the concept of a space nuke sounds, it wouldn’t necessarily harm life on Earth — unless you consider eliminating all satellites in its vicinity harm, in which case the people down on the planet below would be seriously screwed.
Back in 1962, the US military actually did detonate a nuclear weapon in space, though the damage from the electromagnetic pulse it emanated seems mostly to have been limited to streetlights dimming in Hawaii, which was below the test.
Scientists learned from that formerly-classified test that doing so was probably a pretty bad idea, and in 1967, both Russia and the United States signed the Outer Space Treaty to prevent, essentially, space warfare. In the years since, however, concerns have grown that Russia may violate the treaty — especially as more and more communications satellites began littering our planet’s orbit.
https://futurism.com/the-byte/russian-space-nuke-revelations
Because of the test in 1962 the Outer Space Treaty was born…..in case the reader is not up on this thingy…..
The treaty was aimed at preventing the militarization of space but that has fallen by the wayside….with the US Space Force and now this Russian news things could get a bit testy in space.
How long before the US side steps the treaty and launches its nukes into space?
Or is it possible they are already out there?
Something else to worry about in the coming year.
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Carl Sagan was supposedly part of project to drop a nuke on the Moon. Thankfully, wiser heads prevailed and his legacy didn’t get smeared with that.
So true….but I still think one of those ‘secret’ space missions has something to do with nukes. Thanx for the visit and comment. chuq
If the Russians do something, America will do the same, and vice-versa. They will keep the ‘arms race’ alive until armageddon.
Best wishes, Pete.
That is called a ‘tit for tat’ policy….LOL chuq
I think space war will focus on destroying satellites which neutralizes all communications even military. That would be the Pearl Harbor strike. Seems that electromagnetic pulse stuff effective too. At least no radiation contamination with those.
.. If neutralized we would get the ultimatim “unconditional surrender or be incenerated” and we could not respond with any of our military sysems even simple ship. and planes. What rally gets me is that so many people think our “in space warfare” research, investment and prep is a stupid delusional folly.
We have a Space Force that is funded…..there is where any answers should be found. chuq
OK. Recall so much ridicule from dems and media for Trump’s space force and this issue shows how ignorant and foolish the critics were.
Disagree…we already had an air force that could have been expanded without pissing away more money on yet another budget. chuq