Moscow’s race to perfect spacecraft tipped with nuclear warheads could presage a rapidly expanding new phase of Space War 1, say leading American defense scholars who have been war-gaming potential space clashes between Russia and the United States.
Russia’s detonation of a nuclear bomb in orbit - if it destroyed one or more American missile warning satellites - could in turn trigger a U.S. response that extends to its most powerful weapons, these scholars say.
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