Meduza · 15 Jul 2026
The U.S. says Russia is building a nuclear weapon for space. But how would you prove there’s a warhead inside a satellite 1,200 miles up?
Nuclear explosions in space, conducted by the United States in the 1960s, produced brilliant auroras and knocked out power on Earth. If a similar experiment were carried out in orbit today, we would lose navigation, communications, and weather forecasting for a long time. Space is now densely popula
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