This 'continuum' of space-age threats included in the Pentagon's new space strategy includes the prospect of a 'nuclear detonation in space'
Daily Mail/AFP: U.S. is concerned that China or Russia could detonate a nuclear bomb in SPACE which could 'indiscriminately take out satellites' by 'frying their electronics', Pentagon admits
* Pentagon's new Space Strategy sees nuclear weapons as a 'very serious threat'
* Officials insist that 'we do have capabilities which detect these sorts of events'
* They accuse China and Russia of 'weaponizing space' to challenge the US
The United States is concerned that China or Russia could detonate a nuclear weapon in space, the Pentagon admitted yesterday.
A nuclear detonation would produce an electromagnetic pulse that could 'fry the electronics' of US spacecraft and 'indiscriminately' take out satellites, it is feared - although there would be no mushroom cloud in the vacuum of space.
The Pentagon's new Space Strategy sees a nuclear attack in space as one of the gravest threats to US interests, but assistant secretary Stephen Kitay insisted that 'we do have capabilities which detect these sorts of events'.
The document published yesterday accuses China and Russia of 'weaponizing space' while also naming North Korea and Iran as a 'growing threat' to US space operations.
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WNU Editor: If such a decision was ever to be made, it would cause massive and widespread damage in space that it would probably set back man's exploration and use of space for generations.
