The United States is “closely monitoring” Russian efforts to develop a new “anti-satellite” weapons capability that so alarmed the leader of the House Intelligence Committee that he went public and described it as a “national security threat,” according to National Security Council spokesperson John Kirby.
The House Intelligence panel chairman, Ohio Representative Mike Turner, drew attention to the threat earlier on Wednesday when he issued an unusually cryptic statement on the “serious national security threat” and called on Mr Biden to “declassify all information relating to this threat so that Congress, the Administration, and our allies can openly discuss the actions necessary to respond to this threat”.
According to ABC News, two sources described the threat at issue as emanating from Russia and involving plans to potentially use space-based nuclear weapons for anti-satellite purposes.
