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The US air force admitted to deploying weapons in space. Don’t expect the White House to explain why
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PUBLISHEDSep 19, 2026, 11:00 AM
What the source reports
The revelation ‘left experts scratching their heads at exactly what Donald Trump has in his cosmic arsenal’ In Hollywood at least, space weapons are a relatively simple concept.
The good guys, from Captain Kirk and his crew in Star Trek , to Luke Skywalker’s rebel alliance in Star Wars, battle intergalactic villains with an array of colorful lasers and particle-beam cannons, then the bad guys get dispatched in a…
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