{"id":60833,"date":"2026-09-15T20:57:22","date_gmt":"2026-09-15T20:57:22","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/news.godj.com\/news\/watch-warning-of-space-arms-race-as-us-confirms-weapons-in-earths-orbit\/"},"modified":"2026-09-15T20:57:22","modified_gmt":"2026-09-15T20:57:22","slug":"watch-warning-of-space-arms-race-as-us-confirms-weapons-in-earths-orbit","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/news.godj.com\/news\/watch-warning-of-space-arms-race-as-us-confirms-weapons-in-earths-orbit\/","title":{"rendered":"Watch: Warning of space arms race as US confirms weapons in Earth&#8217;s orbit"},"content":{"rendered":"<p> <br \/>\n<\/p>\n<div>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">The US has confirmed it deployed a space weapon in Earth&#8217;s orbit, the first time it has acknowledged such offensive capabilities.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">Russia and China responded by warning of an arms race in space.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">However, according to the BBC&#8217;s Defence correspondent Jonathan Beale, this is already happening.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">Details of how the weapon operates have not been disclosed by US officials.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p><br \/>\n<br \/><a href=\"https:\/\/www.bbc.co.uk\/news\/videos\/cmn07yjqg5rwo?at_medium=RSS&#038;at_campaign=rss\">Source link <\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The US has confirmed it deployed a space weapon in Earth&#8217;s orbit, the first time it has acknowledged such offensive capabilities. Russia and China responded by warning of an arms race in space. However, according to the BBC&#8217;s Defence correspondent Jonathan Beale, this is already happening. Details of how the weapon operates have not been [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":60834,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[63],"tags":[4464,4150,8541,9476,2651,529,1022,1509,3664],"class_list":["post-60833","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-science","tag-arms","tag-confirms","tag-earths","tag-orbit","tag-race","tag-space","tag-warning","tag-watch","tag-weapons"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/news.godj.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/60833","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/news.godj.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/news.godj.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news.godj.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news.godj.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=60833"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/news.godj.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/60833\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":60835,"href":"https:\/\/news.godj.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/60833\/revisions\/60835"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news.godj.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/60834"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/news.godj.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=60833"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news.godj.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=60833"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news.godj.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=60833"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}