By The Global Network Against Weapons and Nuclear Power in Space20 September 2026 The disclosure by US Secretary of the Air Force Troy Meink that the US has deployed space weapons in Low Earth Orbit (LEO) confirmed what many had always thought and is a consequence of the competition between
By Karl Grossman, Published by Counter Punch, 21 September 2026 “U.S. says for 1st time it now has weapons in space” was the headline last week in USA Today. The subhead: “Air Force Secretary Troy Meink became the first U.S. official to publicly announce that the military has deployed weapons
Image: DKosig/Getty Images By Rudy Ruitenberg, Published by Defense News, 17 September 2026 PARIS — Space has become a war-fighting domain, an assessment that calls for doctrinal changes and the ability to intervene there more quickly, space-force leaders from several NATO countries said at the Space Defense and Security Summit
Editor Huaxia Published by Xinhua, 17 September 2026 BEIJING, Sept. 17 (Xinhua) -- The Moon should not become a new battlefield. Preventing the militarization of space must remain a basic principle as humanity ventures beyond Earth. The U.S. "Star Wars" program of the 1980s once raised the prospect of an
By Thomas Novelly, Published by Defense One, 16 September 2026 Days after orbital weapons were revealed, Gen. Dan Caine ups the scope of the military’s desired reach. NATIONAL HARBOR, Md.— The U.S.military’s top uniformed leader says U.S. forces must be ready for war near or possibly even on the moon,
Image credit: NASA/Reid Wiseman Published by Channel News Asia, 16 September 2026 MOSCOW: Russia believes there is still time to prevent an arms race in space by drawing up a legally binding international treaty to outlaw the deployment of offensive weapons there and called on the United States and other
By Abdul Rahman, Published by Breakthrough News, 16 September 2026 The UN Outer Space Treaty (1967) calls for the peaceful use of outer space, prohibiting the deployment of any weapon of mass destruction and preventing anyone from claiming sovereign control. After the US officially admitted it deployed weapons into outer
(Image credit: U.S. Space Force) By Oliver Holmes, Published by The Guardian, 15 September 2026 Analysts warn of an acceleration in high-risk arms race with Russia and China in Earth’s orbit The US has deployed weapons in space, the US military has confirmed, in an extraordinary public announcement that analysts
