Intel Chair Mike Turner: White House Appeared To Be ‘Sleepwalking’ on Russia Space Nuke

Intel Chair Mike Turner: White House Appeared To Be 'Sleepwalking' on Russia Space Nuke

 

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By RICK MORAN

How big a concern is the leaked intelligence pointing to a Russian nuclear threat to our entire communications network? The Outer Space Treaty of 1967 forbade any nation from placing nuclear weapons for any reason in outer space.

Putin has almost singlehandedly upended the post-World War II international order. Before you cheer too loudly, you might want to think about what exactly that means.

For one thing, it could mean nukes in space — a no more destabilizing, dangerous development has ever occurred before. Getting rid of the Outer Space Treaty would create chaos at just the wrong time — just when humans are about to make the biggest breakthroughs in the exploitation of space to date.

The unnamed weapon would be capable of knocking down a large number of surveillance and communication satellites in low earth orbit — perhaps over an area as large as a continent depending on the weapon’s power and the altitude it’s detonated at.

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