{"id":13166,"date":"2024-03-17T02:52:33","date_gmt":"2024-03-17T02:52:33","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/lonecandle.com\/?p=13166"},"modified":"2024-03-17T02:52:35","modified_gmt":"2024-03-17T02:52:35","slug":"putins-deadliest-weapon-yet-has-been-revealed-and-the-west-has-no-answer","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lonecandle.com\/?p=13166","title":{"rendered":"Putin’s deadliest weapon yet has been revealed – and the West has no answer"},"content":{"rendered":"\n

\n\n“According to US intelligence, Russia wants to put a nuclear weapon into space<\/a>. Such a weapons system, they believe, could be used to target Western satellites in orbit, knocking out communications and military targeting systems.  These weapons would be utterly devastating if they were ever used.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Axiomatically, it makes a lot of sense to use nuclear weapons in space: the result of doing so is far more predictable than on land, where geography and the elements can make their deployment tricky. The outcome is also more calculable: given we are so reliant on satellites to communicate, move, and work, we would all feel the impact.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

It\u2019s for this reason the world has long agreed not to put such weapons in the \u2018heavens\u2019. But we know the tyrant Putin<\/a> is no respecter of the rule book and international law. The development of so-called \u2018Wunderwaffe<\/a>\u2019 \u2013 \u201cwonder weapons\u201d \u2013 is one of Putin\u2019s obsessions. The fact this information is coming from US intelligence sources, not Putin\u2019s usual idle boasts, suggest they at least have a grain of truth about them, though, and should be taken seriously. Very seriously.”<\/p>\n\n\n\n

https:\/\/www.yahoo.com\/news\/putins-deadliest-weapon-yet-revealed-154624863.html<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

“According to US intelligence, Russia wants to put a nuclear weapon into space. Such a weapons system, they believe, could be used to target Western satellites in orbit, knocking out communications and military targeting systems. These weapons would be utterly devastating if they were ever used.
\nAxiomatically, it makes a lot of sense to use nuclear weapons in space: the result of doing so is far more predictable than on land, where geography and the elements can make their deployment tricky. The outcome is also more calculable: given we are so reliant on satellites to communicate, move, and work, we would all feel the impact.<\/p>\n

It\u2019s for this reason the world has long agreed not to put such weapons in the \u2018heavens\u2019. But we know the tyrant Putin is no respecter of the rule book and international law. The development of so-called \u2018Wunderwaffe\u2019 \u2013 \u201cwonder weapons\u201d \u2013 is one of Putin\u2019s obsessions. The fact this information is coming from US intelligence sources, not Putin\u2019s usual idle boasts, suggest they at least have a grain of truth about them, though, and should be taken seriously. Very seriously.”<\/p>\n

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