The United States Department of Defense has sounded the alarm on a potential threat from Russia in the form of a hypothetical program aimed at putting a nuclear weapon into orbit.
In 1978 a Russian satellite that was powered by a nuclear reactor failed, and debris fell scattered over Canada.
If we're talking specifically about nuclear weapons positioned in orbit to potentially be exploded in orbit, that's, like, a whole separate question.
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