Russia's Stationing A Nuclear ASAT In Orbit Could Spark Next World War

Contributing sentiments towards policy:

46% : Russia's envoy to the UN abruptly vetoed the resolution.
44% : With its serial breaches of fundamental obligations under the UN Charter and other international laws, he says, "Russia is undermining the entire international order" and the UN itself.
43% : Blasting this high-traffic region of space with a high-yield nuclear device, he says, would damage thousands of civilian satellites, launched by an assemblage of spacefaring nations almost as diverse as the UN.
41% : Since Russia launched its blitzkrieg against democratic Ukraine, Putin's emissaries to the UN have repeatedly threatened to begin shooting down SpaceX satellites, which have beamed broadband internet coverage to the embattled country.
33% : The Kremlin's development of a nuclear-tipped anti-satellite missile and rejection of a new space arms control resolution at the United Nations - both denounced by White House National Security Advisor Jake Sullivan - could ultimately spark a great-power conflict, say defense experts across U.S. universities, think tanks and the American military.

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