So yesterday, there was a big announcement from the House Intelligence Committee.

The House Intelligence Committee chair went on X and tweeted out a statement, suggesting that

there was a serious national security threat. The American public had to be made aware of.

And this freaked to everybody out because when you make vague national security related threats

and you suggest that they are serious enough, that they need to be declassified, everybody starts to have a little bit of palpitations. Well, as it turns out, what exactly

was happening here? It appears that there is intelligence suggesting that Russia is going

to attempt to put nukes in space. Newks in space. So according to CNN.com, the U.S.

has new intelligence on Russian military

capabilities related to its efforts to deploy a nuclear anti-satellite system in space,

according to multiple sources familiar with the intelligence. The intelligence was briefed

to Congress and key U.S. allies. Some lawmakers say it is serious enough. It should be declassified

and made it public. Apparently, it's not an immediate threat. The Russians haven't actually done it yet.

The system is under development. It is not yet in orbit. And it's not even clear how far the technology has progressed, according to one of those officials. So there are a few issues that we need to cover here. One is, what would it mean if Russia actually were to do this? Second is, why are we finding out about this now, not when, you know, it's actually about to happen or when it has happened.

There's something a little bit. to do the second is, why are we finding out about this now, not when, you know, it's actually

about to happen or when it has happened. There's something a little bit funny about that,

politically speaking. So let's talk about what exactly this would mean. First, it means that presumably

there would be a serious threat to America's satellite communications technology, all of our satellite

technology period. So if you were to detonate a nuke in space, it does not exactly have the same

ramifications as if you detonate a nuclear weapon at high altitude, for example, if you detonate a

nuclear weapon at high altitude, that comes with the possible threat of EMP, right, electromagnetic pulses,

which could take out fry all of your electronics. You've seen some of the kind of horror movies

about that possibility. If you detonate a nuclear weapon close to the ground, obviously you devastate

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