#RUSSIA: What do we know of anti-satellite weapons in LEO? Also, Drone Fleets of the Pacific. Patrick Tucker Defense One
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🗓️ 24 February 2024
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#RUSSIA: What do we know of anti-satellite weapons in LEO? Also, Drone Fleets of the Pacific. Patrick Tucker Defense One
https://www.defenseone.com/technology/2024/02/russia-putting-anti-satellite-nuke-space/394198/
https://www.defenseone.com/threats/2024/02/navy-envisions-hundreds-thousands-drones-pacific-deter-china/394266/
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| 0:40.5 | I'm John Bachelor with my colleague Patrick Tucker, the Defense One Technology editor picking up things way early and very helpful. Right now |
| 0:44.8 | Patrick is going to report on something that's in the news because the |
| 0:48.9 | administration and members of Congress have accelerated the American public's knowledge of these matters. |
| 0:55.4 | This is about nuclear weapon in space. |
| 0:59.0 | The Space Treaty of 1967 forbids the militarization of low-Earth orbit, medium-Earth orbit, high-Earth orbit. |
| 1:07.0 | However, right now there is a report, and it's repeated from the Biden administration, this is not whispering, that Russia intends or maybe already |
| 1:16.5 | has deployed a nuclear weapon into low-Earth orbit. |
| 1:20.4 | Why, Patrick, what advantage is there in exploding a nuclear weapon in space? |
| 1:26.0 | Well, yes, thank you. |
| 1:29.0 | This is something that happened last week as soon as Representative Congressman Mike Turner from Ohio went to |
| 1:38.2 | Twitter and said that there was an imminent destabilizing foreign military capability that was a serious |
| 1:45.8 | national security threat that the White House was sitting on. |
| 1:48.7 | uh... naturally is only a matter of hours before everyone figured out exactly what he was |
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