“Serious National Security Threat.

[Copper]

The 5 threats.

1. China will claim the moon.
2. Spies and assorted bad guys are crossing our borders, north, south, east and west.
3. Mr. Trump could win the election.
4. Inflation caused by republicans.
5. Global Warming.

[Aqua Letifer]

@George-K said in “Serious National Security Threat.:

Supposedly Russian space capabilities.

Sputnik lives.

[George K]

[Copper]

We can not allow a Space Nukes Gap.

[89th]

There have been plenty of 60 Minutes-type stories on the grave risks out there. Kessler Syndrome (aka the domino effect of satellites crashing, causing more crashes, etc...), our electrical grid... lone wolf actors... China...

[Renauda]

Putin will stop at nothing - including nukes in earth orbit - to get the US to give him Ukraine. It’s his very own and much coveted My Precious. He said as much last week in his vaunted sermon to the FuCa.

[Renauda]

@Aqua-Letifer said in “Serious National Security Threat.:

@George-K said in “Serious National Security Threat.:

Supposedly Russian space capabilities.

Sputnik lives.

Worse than that. Those unidentified aerial phenomena, euphemistically called “tic-tacs” that have been making the headlines and creating all the excitement on every other episode of Ancient Aliens, are now known to be made at an undisclosed location deep inside the Ural Mountains!

[Mik]

This looks more political than anything new in national security.

[Renauda]

@Mik

I’m sure you’re right but let’s face it; it makes for great coffee and donut shop gossip.

[George K]

EMP

https://www.cnn.com/2024/02/16/politics/russia-nuclear-space-weapon-intelligence/index.html

Republican Rep. Mike Turner of Ohio, the chair of the House Intelligence Committee, set off a frenzy in Washington on Wednesday when he issued a statement saying his panel “had information concerning a serious national security threat.” By Friday, President Joe Biden had publicly confirmed that Turner was referring to a new Russian nuclear anti-satellite capability — but officials have steadfastly refused to discuss it further, citing the highly classified nature of the intelligence.

The weapon is still under development and is not yet in orbit, Biden administration officials have emphasized publicly. But if used, officials say, it would cross a dangerous rubicon in the history of nuclear weapons and could cause extreme disruptions to everyday life in ways that are difficult to predict.

This kind of new weapon — known generally by military space experts as a nuclear EMP — would create a pulse of electromagnetic energy and a flood of highly charged particles that would tear through space to disrupt other satellites winging around Earth.

Biden on Friday emphasized publicly that there is “no nuclear threat to the people of America or anywhere else in the world with what Russia is doing at the moment.”

“Anything that they’re doing and/or they will do relates to satellites and space and damaging those satellites, potentially,” he said.

[Mik]

Gosh, EMP is NEW, right?

I’ve been aware of that threat for 45 years.

[George K]

@Mik said in “Serious National Security Threat.:

Gosh, EMP is NEW, right?

I’ve been aware of that threat for 45 years.

I don't think anyone's actually put it into space.

[89th]

You mean, anyone else