VOX – FUTURE PERFECT: How the US is preparing to fight — and win — a war in space – By Tim Fernholz | Updated Feb 15, 2024, 10:19am EST

Aaron Bateman, who studies space security, notes that until the mid-1970s, the US didn’t have the technology to precisely target a satellite with a weapon; its main concept for anti-satellite (ASAT) weapons was to detonate a nuclear warhead as close as possible to the enemy spacecraft.

Space, notably, is the most classified of all military sectors, even more so than the nuclear program. “The US military will tell the US how many B-2s and F-22s that we have; we do not tell the world what we have up in orbit,” Bateman says.