According to the plot, Russia developed the machine to dissuade a US attack on its territory. Dr. Strangelove, a zany, ...

Diego Garcia is one of more than a dozen strategic outposts deemed vital to global security by contesting alliances. The main contestants are the team of the United States and Nato, and against them ...

There are also international agreements against deploying weapons in space. The 1967 Space Treaty prohibits the deployment of weapons of mass destruction in orbit. However, in recent times ...

The Outer Space Treaty, which was first signed less than four years later, bans deploying “nuclear weapons or any other kinds of weapons of mass destruction” in orbit. Today, both decades-old ...

If Russia were to deploy such a weapon, it would be a violation of the Outer Space Treaty of 1967 preventing weapons of mass destruction in space. There are limited existing options to defending ...

US officials think Russia's Kosmos-2553 satellite could be a "space weapon". US officials have expressed concern over this, ...

or station such weapons in outer space.” The treaty was ratified by 114 countries, including the U.S. and Russia. Wood said all countries should support the Outer Space Treaty and not let Russia ...

A Russian satellite in an unusual orbit is raising concerns among U.S. officials. They suspect it could be testing technology for a space weapon capable of destroying other satellites. Russia denies ...

the Committee on the Peaceful Uses of Outer Space (COPUOS) was set up by the United Nations General Assembly in 1959. Subsequently, this committee led to the foundation of the “Treaty on Principles ...