news Russia plans to put nuclear weapon in space

[Chemist]

9 hours ago, bad guy said:

Oh so totally true and trusted reporting and not at all Cold War fear-mongering tactics. Got it.

 

to be fair they were quite right about Russia's plans to invade Ukraine (which we laughed about it cause we didn't think it was going to happen)

 

 

 

[shyboi]

8 hours ago, Horizon Flame said:

Last year is centuries ago?

what? really? 

[Terylee]

Please don't tell me he is building a Death Star somewhere in space.

[chessguy99]

There is a ban on WMDs in space, backed by the UN.  The treaty is one that was signed by the Soviet Union and Russia accepted after the breakup of the Soviet Union. One has to wonder if this is just subterfuge to change some Republican Senators and Representative minds on Ukraine aid.

[Bosque]

On 2/15/2024 at 6:14 PM, chessguy99 said:

There is a ban on WMDs in space, backed by the UN.  The treaty is one that was signed by the Soviet Union and Russia accepted after the breakup of the Soviet Union. One has to wonder if this is just subterfuge to change some Republican Senators and Representative minds on Ukraine aid.

Would Russia ignore an international treaty that they signed?  

[Pendulum]

Wouldn't that be a threat to the aliens? What if they attack us in return?

 

[Gottasadae]

I don't think they have a money and capability to do so but anyway, we need to be aware and prepared for any scenario 

[Phaunzie]

They really said in Tyra Banks voice, "WOGS (Weapons of Global Suffering) in SSPPAACCCEEE."

[Letemtalk]

On 2/15/2024 at 1:29 PM, shyboi said:

and how are they getting them there? we haven't been there in centuries

https://www.astronomy.com/space-exploration/the-karman-line-where-does-space-begin/

 

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Earth ends and outer space starts at the Kármán line, some 62 miles (100 kilometers) above the planet's surface.

I'm pretty sure humans have been there not long ago and nuclear weapons in space is also not a new thing for Russia or the US.

 

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Both the United States and Soviet Union briefly tested nuclear weapons in space before the ratification of the 1967 Outer Space Treaty, which bans the placement of nuclear weapons of any kind into orbit, as well as further nuclear detonations in space. A 1962 test by the United States, launched from Johnston Atoll in the Pacific Ocean, was particularly damaging. Exploding 250 miles into the atmosphere, the electromagnetic pulse destroyed electronics in Hawaii, disrupting telephone service there, and took at least a half dozen orbiting satellites out of the sky, and damaged others.

https://www.nytimes.com/2024/02/17/us/politics/russia-nuclear-weapon-space.html

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Operation_Fishbowl

 

This might also not be the first example of a nuclear weapon in space since the ratification of the 1967 Outer Space Treaty, although the altitude of the Vela incident is uncertain.

 

Edit: according to some sources, the Vela incident was probably too low to be space explosion, so might not have been illegal under the 1967 Outer Space Treaty. however it would have in contravention of the Partial Nuclear Test Ban Treaty of 1963.

 

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The Vela incident was an unidentified double flash of light detected by an American Vela Hotel satellite on 22 September 1979 near the South African territory of Prince Edward Islands in the Indian Ocean, roughly midway between Africa and Antarctica. Today, most independent researchers believe that the flash was caused by a nuclear explosion[1][2][3]—an undeclared joint nuclear test carried out by South Africa and Israel.[4][5]

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Vela_incident

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Partial_Nuclear_Test_Ban_Treaty

https://foreignpolicy.com/2019/09/22/blast-from-the-past-vela-satellite-israel-nuclear-double-flash-1979-ptbt-south-atlantic-south-africa/