Scientists working to uncover space-based nuclear weapons

According to Boing Boing, scientists are working on ways to detect nuclear weapons that could be placed in space. The effort runs up against the nineteen sixty-seven Outer Space Treaty, which bars nations from stationing atomic weapons beyond the atmosphere. In an ideal world every nuclear-armed country would honor that agreement, ruling out the threat of atomic fire from orbit. The reporting frames this as a scientific push to verify whether that line is actually being held.

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