Forbes
After American intelligence discovered Russia is secretly developing nuclear-armed fighter spacecraft to challenge the Western space powers, a U.S. space defense outfit is testing futuristic inspector craft that could find a warhead hidden inside a capsule circling the planet.
The Kremlin’s clandestine project to station hyper-powerful weapons in orbit could escalate its nuclear brinkmanship, conducted via a barrage of threats to deploy its atomic arsenal—the world’s largest—against any Western ally directly helping Ukraine repel its Russian invaders.
Moscow has also warned it could begin shooting down American satellites aiding Ukraine, including SpaceX’s broadband-beaming sats, extending its military belligerence into the celestial sphere.
