Image: The UN Security Council holds a meeting on nuclear disarmament and non-proliferation. Photograph: Xinhua/REX/Shutterstock By Guardian staff and agencies, Published by The Guardian, 19 March 2024 UN chief António Guterres says risk of nuclear war has escalated and that ‘humanity cannot survive a sequel to Oppenheimer The US and
Satellite dishes attached to a ruined home in Hostomel, Ukraine. NurPhotoGetty Images By Theodora Ogden, Anna Knack, Mélusine Lebret, James Black and Vasilios Mavroudis, Publshed by CETAS, February 2024 Introduction Since the invasion of February 2022, Russia’s war of aggression in Ukraine has become an attritional grind, inflicting heavy losses
The Space Development Agency's constellation “Proliferated Warfighter Space Architecture" was formerly known as the “National Defense Space Architecture." Credit: SDA By Audrey Decker, Published by Defense One, 27 February 2024 The nascent Proliferated Warfighter Space Architecture is built on the idea that lots of satellites offer plenty of redundancy. Reports
An artist's impression of the TIMED spacecraft scanning Earth in orbit. (Image credit: Johns Hopkins APL/Steve Gribbenu003c/strongu003e) By Ben Turner, Published by Live Science, 28 February 2024 NASA's TIMED satellite narrowly avoided hitting a defunct Russian satellite in the early hours of the morning. An active NASA spacecraft has survived a
Image source: Blacklisted News By Lucas Leiroz, Published by Signs of the Times, 20 February 2024 Recently, the U.S. began spreading rumors about alleged Russian space-based nuclear weapons. According to American intelligence, Moscow is developing a powerful anti-satellite weapon to be deployed in space, thus violating international norms that prohibit
By Michael Drummond, Published by Sky News, 17 February 2024 Amid reports that Russia is planning to deploy nuclear weapons in space, Sky News speaks to three experts about what military use of space looks like. Speculation that Russia might be developing a new space-based nuclear weapon has led to
GPM Core Observatory - NASA Goddard Space Flight Centre By Ekaterina Blinova,Published by Sputnik International, 15 February 2024 Russia has effective means to thwart adversary satellites, including arms based on new physical principles. What are they? Moscow trashed the groundless rumors of its alleged efforts to deploy a nuclear anti-satellite system in
Ground-based Starfire laser at Kirtland AFB in New Mexico By Bruce Gagnon, Published in 'Organising Notes', 15 February, 2024 Remember in 2003 how the New York Times reported that Iraq had WMD which then justified the Bush administration's 'shock and awe' attack? At the time so-called 'intelligence agencies' in the
