Nuclear space weapons: Why an old topic is coming back to the table now of all times. The threat has not just been real since Wednesday, but has always been real.
Almost half of the approximately 1,600 satellites orbiting the earth belong to the USA. The Outer Space Treaty of 1967 bans nuclear space weapons in Earth orbit. It was only in November 2022 that the crew of the International Space Station had to flee to safety in their spacecraft because a cloud of space debris threatened to collide with the ISS.