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Revisiting America's Cold War plans for nuclear weapons in orbit
Original: Nuke the site from orbit: American orbiting nuclear weapons during the Cold War
A new retrospective examines the United States' Cold War-era work on placing nuclear weapons in orbit, a program that threatened to extend the arms race into space. The piece recounts how such plans were ultimately abandoned as Washington and Moscow moved toward treaties banning orbital nuclear deployment. Commenters are debating how close the world came to militarized orbit.
Why now: Renewed interest in space militarisation has revived attention to Cold War plans for orbiting nuclear weapons.
United StatesSoviet UnionCold WarOuter Space Treaty
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