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Nobody can currently prove whether a nuclear weapon is hidden in orbit
The 1967 Outer Space Treaty bans any country from placing nuclear weapons in orbit, but the agreement has never included a way to check whether a satellite is actually complying. No government has an approved, unclassified method for peering inside a suspect spacecraft to confirm or rule out a hidden warhead. An MIT physicist has […]
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Rowan Calder
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