US accuses Russia of developing anti-satellite weapon. White House spokesperson lifted the veil on the “serious threat to national security” coming from Moscow.
Head of the Intelligence Committee of the House of Representatives had caused trouble in Washington by publicly inviting his peers in Congress to review "information relating to a serious threat" The 1967 Outer Space Treaty, to which the U.S. and Russia are parties, prohibits the deployment of nuclear weapons in space. Moscow described the information coming from the United States as “malicious” and “baseless”