The U.S. revealed this week that Russia is reportedly working on, or is at least considering building, a nuclear weapon designed to only be used in space as an anti-satellite weapon.
President Joe Biden addressed the matter a press conference on Friday, saying that there was no immediate threat to anyone on earth from the potential weapon, adding that there was “no evidence that they have made a decision to go forward with doing anything in space either.”
“So what we found out, there was a capacity to launch a system into space that could theoretically do something that was damaging, hadn’t happened yet,” he added. “And my hope is that it will not.”
Lt. Col. “Tony” Vincent, an active duty scientist in the United States Air Force (USAF) who is currently the Director of Advanced Physics Courses at the Air Force Academy, wrote in a September 2022 piece about the dangers…
