Posted on 02/14/2024 1:45:21 PM PST by algore
The U.S. believes Russia wants to put a nuclear weapon in space, according to reports sparked by a top Republican warning about a 'serious national security threat'.
House Intel Chair Rep. Mike Turner of Ohio said members of Congress had been made aware of the threat which is reported to be related to Russia and its threat from space - but wouldn't go into details.
It later emerged that it was related to Moscow's plan to put a nuclear weapon into space to target and destroy satellites the world depends on, ABC News reported.
Turner asked the president to declassify the information so lawmakers could discuss the ramifications in the ominous warning that sparked a response from the White House and furious speculation.
Moscow has already shown how it can be lethal from space by testing a hit-to-kill anti-satellite missile in 2021.
Russia smashed a defunct spy satellite launched in 1982 into 1,500 pieces of debris in the strike and sparked fury around the world.
Rep. Jason Crow, D-Colo., was one of the first lawmakers to view the documents in the SCIF on Wednesday afternoon.
He told reporters that the threat is 'not an immediate crisis but certainly something we have to be very serious about.'
National Security Advisor Jake Sullivan said Wednesday he was 'surprised' Turner came publicly about the threat related to a 'destabilizing foreign military capability.'
'That's been on the books. So I am a bit surprised that Congressman Turner came out publicly today in advance of a meeting on the books for me to go sit with him alongside our intelligence and defense professionals tomorrow,
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Well a high altitude nuke works better due to the Compton Effect. But yeah, that’s why you put a nuke in space. No need to waste a nuke on satellites.
Never mind the Norks have two satellites in N-S polar orbit that traverse the continental US 2 or three times a day.
Oh, and they are known to be powered and operating, but have never transmitted. Despite being announced as comes birds.
A trans son as well. The Twilight Zone.
“put a nuclear weapon into space to target and destroy satellites “
There’s a little problem with debris.
Blofeld :
The satellite is at present over... Kansas. Well, if we destroy Kansas the world may not hear about it for years.
Diamonds Are Forever
They gave up on that. They developed ill-tempered mutated sea bass.
“People are so gullible that the Media can just put in some trigger words and rile people up because people don’t stop and try to make sense of it.”
You mean like on FR?
They are playing poker while we play go fish. I wanna know, however, can we fix this problem if we increase our national debt to $68T? It really doesn’t matter since we can’t repay it anyway.
Hey, watch it. I resemble that remark.
Caption:
And we’ll fight, fight, fight, fight
until we break a nail.
From a Detroit rock fm station parody in the 1990s about an all gay squad proposed to end don’t ask, don’t tell.
HOW CONVENIENT!
That is you speaking and you can’t speak for DS.
Kinetic weapons are much better at taking out space-based assets.
Railgun-like launchers are hard to detect and can be wicked accurate over very long distances. No explosions. A tungsten coated projectile rips through the target and, oooops, that satellite just went offline!
A nuclear weapon would be messy, noticed, and lead to all kinds of questions.
This doesn’t pass the smell test.
I certainly am not DS. Officially I ain’t sayin squat, but if you read my profile, it’s sort of my business, so I speak with as much credibility as you will find on this platform. If you don’t want to believe it, it’s no skin off me.
And Biden immediately responded “A minor incursion into space is fine.”
Much better to wipe out all electrical infrastructure with hack attacks.
“She clearly had work done since the ST episode.”
Naw, she was braless in the ST episode and in Young Frankenstein she had a push up bra.
I feel so safe. And so proud of our gender-diverse in uniform.
“I’m concerned about the nukes on the Russian subs loitering a couple hundred miles off our coasts.”
I’d be more concerned about the sailors serving on those subs since history shows that the greatest threat to Soviet submariners is their own boat.
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