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"Pentagon spokesman Pat Ryder has reported that Russia deployed a satellite, described as a &quot;new kind of space weapon,&quot; which was put into the same low orbit as a United States Government satellite..The announcement comes months after House Intelligence Committee (HPSCI) Chairman Mike Turner raised the alarm over a &quot;serious national security threat,&quot; speculated to be a Russian nuclear weapon-based anti-satellite weapon, which would use ionizing x-ray radiation from a detonation to damage or destroy enemy satellites."
<https://theatlasnews.co/brief/2024/05/21/russia-deploys-new-space-weapon-per-pentagon>