{"id":240509,"date":"2026-07-09T03:19:06","date_gmt":"2026-07-09T08:19:06","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2026\/07\/space-sensor-could-spot-hidden-nuclear-weapons-in-orbit-with-99-accuracy"},"modified":"2026-07-09T03:19:06","modified_gmt":"2026-07-09T08:19:06","slug":"space-sensor-could-spot-hidden-nuclear-weapons-in-orbit-with-99-accuracy","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2026\/07\/space-sensor-could-spot-hidden-nuclear-weapons-in-orbit-with-99-accuracy","title":{"rendered":"Space sensor could spot hidden nuclear weapons in orbit with 99% accuracy"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a class=\"aligncenter blog-photo\" href=\"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog.images\/space-sensor-could-spot-hidden-nuclear-weapons-in-orbit-with-99-accuracy3.jpg\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p>In 2024, a U.S. government official warned that Russia could be developing a new satellite designed to carry nuclear weapons into space. The statement followed the launch of a suspicious Russian satellite into low-Earth orbit in 2022, just a few weeks before the country\u2019s full-scale invasion of Ukraine.<\/p>\n<p>A nuclear detonation in low-Earth orbit\u2014the region about 100 miles to 1,200 miles above Earth\u2019s surface\u2014would release trillions of highly energetic electrons that would destroy many of the satellites in space, disrupting telecommunications networks, GPS, space-based internet and more.<\/p>\n<p>The 1967 Outer Space Treaty bans the placement of nuclear weapons in space, but there\u2019s currently no way to verify satellites don\u2019t contain nuclear weapons. In fact, no verification methods have even been proposed in unclassified, peer-reviewed literature.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>In 2024, a U.S. government official warned that Russia could be developing a new satellite designed to carry nuclear weapons into space. The statement followed the launch of a suspicious Russian satellite into low-Earth orbit in 2022, just a few weeks before the country\u2019s full-scale invasion of Ukraine. A nuclear detonation in low-Earth orbit\u2014the region [\u2026]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":427,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5,418,9,2028,22],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-240509","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-geopolitics","category-internet","category-military","category-satellites","category-treaties"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/240509","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/427"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=240509"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/240509\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=240509"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=240509"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=240509"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}