Sean Bell
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first heard Sep 2026
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Good morning to Clan.
Well, in a way, yes.
I mean this is nothing new, to be brutally honest.
Um there are various treaties that go back to the nineteen sixties, basically, because do you know the only nuclear power that's any ever actually exploded a nuclear weapon in space is
America.
Back in nineteen sixty two, a four hundred kilometers high over the um um Pacific, they actually designated a nuclear weapon and that caused it was called Starfish Prime, I think, the exercise.
And it took out the EMP burst took out disabled six satellites, which was about a quarter of all those that were around at the time.
Um, and and as a result of the devastation that caused, it was agreed that actually nobody should put
nuclear weapons in space.
And that's why we had this out of space treaty in the six in the late sixties.
But
That frankly, ever since then, technology has moved on and the very fact that all the big nations deny it, there's no doubt that Russia and China have been developing nuclear um space capabilities and it's simply a recognition that America is doing exactly the same.
Well, there's two points there, Claire.
Yes.
Nineteen sixty-seven Outer Space Treaty basically bans nuclear weapons or weapons of mass destruction in space, but it doesn't stop you doing virtually anything else in space.
And to be brutally honest, it's not like you can easily check.
So how do you police such a thing?
And one of the problems here, in a way, it's a little bit like the AI conversation.
You can all sit around a table with the Russians, the Americans.
And these Chinese and say, no, we won't put weapons in space.
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