Toby Howell

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Morning Brew Daily · Canada Wants to Link Up with the EU & America Reveals its Space Weapon · 16 Sep 2026 podcast

It also includes so-called kinetic weapons, which have the ability to physically destroy satellites. voice-verified

If that all sounds scary, hand-wavy, and futuristic, that's sort of the point. voice-verified

Secretary Menck said that the disclosure is meant to act as a deterrence to other nations without fully disclosing the weapons' capabilities. voice-verified

Talking publicly about voice-verified

Space weapons is part of a chess game going on hundreds of miles above your head, with Russia and China already sitting at the orbital table. voice-verified

The US has been keeping an eye on Russian testing of anti-satellite weapons as far back as 2020, while a 2025 space threat assessment deemed China has the ability to form, quote, a formidable counter-space arsenal. voice-verified

Neil, it appears that the US is saying we also have things in space that go pure. voice-verified

Pew pew. voice-verified

And this also provides us with a potential peek into a future where what's going on in space influences warfare down here on Earth. voice-verified

I'm trying to figure out how a lightsaber weapon would work. 'Cause that is a personal sword that you wield and yet you it's a voice-verified

A lightsaber in space. voice-verified

Is it just spinning around slowly and just already? voice-verified

I'm just I'm trying to wrap my head around that one. voice-verified

Uh, one of the reasons why Mink acknowledged that we have these weapons up there is deterrence. voice-verified

That was kind of the big idea here is that hey, if we say that we have something up there, maybe nations would be less inclined to attack us or something like that. voice-verified

But a lot of critics said that the announcement was too vague to actually create any meaningful deterrence. voice-verified

They pointed towards nuclear deterrence, mute the this concept of mutually asserted destruction. voice-verified

That works because everyone involved understands roughly what a nuclear weapon can do and when they might be used. voice-verified

If you just kind of hand waved the fact that you have a space weapon, it's not really gonna deter anyone because they don't know if it's a laser dazzler or if it's a kinetic weapon or if it's a lightsaber. voice-verified

This concept does not exist up in space. voice-verified

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