05-05-2024 00:25 via science.slashdot.org

U.S. Seeks to Build World Pressure on Russia Over Space Nuclear Weapon

An anonymous reader shared this report from the New York Times:
American officials are trying to increase international pressure on Russia not to deploy an antisatellite nuclear weapon in space, and have obtained information that undermines Moscow's explanation that the device it is developing is for peaceful scientific purposes, a senior State Department official said on Friday...
On Friday, Mallory Stewart, the assistant secretary of state for arms control, said that while the United States ha
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