The US carried out the Starfish Prime test by detonating a 1.4-megaton thermonuclear bomb about 400 kilometres above Earth.
NASA visualization showing a cross-section of Earth's Van Allen radiation belts. (NASA/Goddard Space Flight Center Scientific ...
A constellation of cubesats fitted with special detectors could sniff out nuclear weapons hidden on satellites launched by ...
Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Gen. Stephen Whiting, the commander of U.S. Space Command, recently made waves when he publicly discussed a major threat that ...
On August 6, 1945, the US bomber Enola Gay dropped the first atomic bomb ever used in military combat on the Japanese city of ...
Space-based nuclear weapons are a serious matter, and one that deserves the very highest level of national attention.