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America's Cold War plans for nuclear weapons in orbit
Original: Nuke the site from orbit: American orbiting nuclear weapons during the Cold War
The Space Review has published a retrospective on American programs to station nuclear weapons in orbit during the Cold War. The piece revisits how Washington explored orbiting nuclear arms as a strike option before treaties and practical limits curtailed such plans. The article recounts the technology, strategy and policy debates that shaped the era's space-based weapons thinking.
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