US Military Alarmed by Russian Nuclear Weapon Platform in Orbit

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US Military Alarmed by Russian Nuclear Weapon Platform in Orbit

Dumb War

A Russian spacecraft launched higher than most satellites has

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— and new revelations about what it contains have made those concerns all the greater.

Launched in

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just a few weeks before

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, Russia’s Cosmos 2553 spacecraft is nominally built to test out “newly developed onboard instruments and systems.” According to

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, however, the mysterious satellite system contains a “****** 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.

ASAT Stats

Back in 1962, the US military

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, 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

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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,

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that

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— especially as more and more communications satellites began littering our planet’s orbit.

After Russia released Cosmos 2553 some 250 miles above the planet’s surface, military experts became concerned that it

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. As the NYT’s new reporting reveals, the US Space Force and a group of intelligence agencies have quietly been looking into the satellite to try to figure out its real purpose.

Throughout 2024, more and more information about the

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began to

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. In response, Russian President Vladimir Putin has

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that it’s any such thing — though notably, it doesn’t appear he’s made any such denial since the NYT reported that Cosmos 2553 contains a ****** warhead.

Despite those refutations,

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a United Nations resolution that would bar nuclear weapons in space. If the NYT’s reporting holds up, we may know why.

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