Nuclear Weapons in Space
This episode is part of our curtain raiser series ahead of the tenth edition of the Global Technology Summit, Carnegie India’s flagship annual event, co-hosted with the Ministry of External Affairs, Government of India, to be held in New Delhi from December 2 to 4, 2026.
Vipin begins with the shift he saw while serving at the Pentagon: military competition in space was probably inevitable with the rise of China, and the U.S. and its allies are far more dependent on space than Russia is. That asymmetry, he says, is the only way a nuclear weapon in orbit makes sense, as a brute force…
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