Republicans have called on the Biden administration to release the classified intelligence (Picture: Getty)
Vladimir Putin is preparing to put nuclear weapons into space, US intelligence sources have warned.
Britain and its Nato allies are waking up to cryptic reports about Russian advances on a new, space-based nuclear munition.
This would not be to drop a nuclear weapon onto Earth but rather to possibly use against satellites.
If deployed, it could threaten extensive satellite networks, according to officials.
Head of the House intelligence committee, Republican congressman Mike Turner, has called for the Biden administration to declassify information on what he called a ‘serious national security threat’.
ABC News cited unnamed sources as saying that the security threat the politician was referring to involved Russia’s potential deployment of a nuclear anti-satellite weapon in space.
Calling this ‘a big deal,’ one of the sources told the network: ‘It is very concerning and very sensitive.’
This comes as the Russian president said in an interview broadcast on Wednesday that he preferred Joe Biden to Donald Trump as US president.
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