Is Russia sending nukes to space? How to respond with faith when we’re right to be afraid
The Daily Article
The Denison Forum
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🗓️ 16 February 2024
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Summary
Russia is developing a space-based nuclear weapon that “the United States does not have the ability to counter,” according to the New York Times. When asked if he could tell Americans not to worry, National Security Advisor Jake Sullivan replied that it was “impossible to answer with a straight ‘yes.’” In times like these, we need to remember one of Christ’s most challenging commands.
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| 0:00.0 | Greetings and welcome to the Daily Article Podcast for Friday, February the 16th, |
| 0:06.0 | 2024. I'm Chris Elkins of the Denison Forum, narrating today's article written by Dr. Ryan Denison. |
| 0:12.0 | News broke yesterday that Russia is developing a space-based nuclear weapon that the United States does not have an ability to counter. |
| 0:23.0 | This is what we know so far. The weapon would be intended to attack other satellites, |
| 0:27.7 | potentially crippling space-based surveillance, civilian communications, and the military's ability |
| 0:32.9 | to coordinate and control operations. To this point, it does not appear that the weapon could be used to target locations on the ground. |
| 0:41.3 | Russia does not appear ready to deploy the weapon at the moment, though it is unclear what their timeline for doing so might be. |
| 0:47.3 | Should Russia or any other nation send nuclear weapons into space, it would violate the Outer Space Treaty of 1967. China, Russia, and the |
| 0:57.6 | United States have all signed that treaty, but it remains one of the few from that era still in effect. |
| 1:03.7 | National Security Advisor Jake Sullivan met with representatives from the House Intelligence Committee |
| 1:08.6 | on Thursday to discuss the president's planned response. |
| 1:12.4 | Committee chairman, Mike Turner, said of the briefing, quote, |
| 1:15.7 | We all came away with a very strong impression that the administration is taking this very seriously |
| 1:21.1 | and that the administration has a plan in place. |
| 1:23.9 | We look forward to supporting them as they go to implement it. |
| 1:32.3 | In quote, further details have been withheld in order to protect intelligence sources, and both the administration and Congress have been quick to note that there does not appear to be an immediate threat. |
| 1:38.3 | Still, the nature of response to date would seem to indicate that the danger is more than hypothetical. |
| 1:45.0 | When asked if he could tell Americans not to worry, Mr. Sullivan said that it was |
| 1:50.0 | impossible to answer with a straight yes. |
| 1:53.0 | After all, Russia does not necessarily have to use the weapon in order for it to have a potentially |
| 1:58.0 | catastrophic impact. Simply sending it into orbit would be enough to fundamentally shift the way the other world powers, |
| 2:04.6 | like the US and China, see space as a battleground. |
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