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Sep 28, 2026
speaker_25NARRATOR
Five-year mission to explore strange new worlds, to seek out new life and new civilizations, to boldly go where no man has gone before.
Joe ThomasHOST
And the issue has always been the weapons in space.
Joe ThomasHOST
Oh, Star Trek was we're on a mission of peace, but I have photon torpedoes and phasers and I'm not afraid to use them.
Joe ThomasHOST
Why? Because even peaceful people are going to get attacked.
Joe ThomasHOST
that nobody remembers.
Joe ThomasHOST
He's out there saying, you know, we're going out on this ocean and our job is to defend it.
Joe ThomasHOST
And Trump, one of Trump administration officials leaked, if you will, or slipped of a tongue that there were weapons in space.
Joe ThomasHOST
Of course there are weapons in space.
JoePANELIST
are going to pay for boots on Mars.
David LivingstonHOST
So, Bob, we now know that Russia, China and the United States has weapons in space.
David LivingstonHOST
Oh, that's.
David LivingstonHOST
And the chart has been published as to what.
Bob ZimmermanGUEST
Oh, they've admitted this.
Bob ZimmermanGUEST
Oh, my God.
Bob ZimmermanGUEST
And weapons in space, we're all going to die now? It's the same kind of stupidity, and it's based on a lot of ignorance.
Bob ZimmermanGUEST
We've been doing this for decades.
Nish KumarGUEST
rather than just a purely defensive one last year.
Nish KumarGUEST
And I mean, when you think about it, you think, why on earth would they be launching weapons in space? And you're thinking about this all in the wrong way.
Nish KumarGUEST
You're thinking about this as if it's an extension of the military, but actually it's border security.
Nish KumarGUEST
We've had years of the US government trying to secure the land borders with Mexico and with those goddamn newly minted Europeans in Canada.
SkyGUEST
The Air Force Secretary has declared, this is very interesting, it's probably common knowledge by now, that the U.S. indeed, as we know from September 14th of this year, that the United States had already deployed via the U.S. Space Force active, how about this, on-orbit space control weapons, capable of defending the joint force against hostile, that is, adversary action.
SkyGUEST
Simple Earth language, meaning that there's the admission of some sort of space weapons out there.
SkyGUEST
And then it goes further when the chairman of the Joint Chiefs, General Kane, is also a speaker at one of these great seminars and symposiums, and the simplicity of what he says is really amazing.
SkyGUEST
He's talking about we, the United States and the Space Force, need to prepare for warfare, that is, out to the cislunar area, which means the Earth to the Moon, and maybe even hostile attacks on the surface of the Moon by future adversaries.
SkyGUEST
So that's amazing.
SkyGUEST
So what could all these space weapons be? And in the short time we have here, here's a fact.
SkyGUEST
Many people may not know this.
SkyGUEST
The Soviet Union at the time had a secret military space station called Almaz up there.
R. Prescott StearnsHOST
HacktronAI broke into OpenAI's internal systems using Claude to develop the exploit, proving that AI doesn't just make hacking faster, it makes sophisticated attacks cheap enough for anyone with a credit card and curiosity.
R. Prescott StearnsHOST
The U.S. has publicly deployed weapons in space for the first time, satellites designed to quietly disable or disrupt other countries' systems, and nobody really knows what happens next when Russia and China deploy their own.
R. Prescott StearnsHOST
Flock Safety is offering employees massive buyouts as cities and counties walk away from its surveillance camera network because the company that was supposed to catch criminals is building tools to find people, track their movements, and search police records based on AI descriptions.
R. Prescott StearnsHOST
Australia is considering banning smart glasses from government buildings because the devices can quietly record everything and everyone has no idea when they're being filmed.
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R. Prescott StearnsHOST
Literal weapons deployed in space.
R. Prescott StearnsHOST
And nobody really knows what happens when the war moves into low Earth orbit.
R. Prescott StearnsHOST
Our next story on the U.S. and low Earth orbit, America acknowledges for the first time it has deployed weapons in space.
R. Prescott StearnsHOST
The U.S. has publicly acknowledged something it has never admitted before.
Stephen ParrHOST
It was about taking nuclear missiles out on their way up.
Stephen ParrHOST
I don't know if we have that capability because they said we have weapons in space, but they didn't say specifically what kind of weapons, whether it's laser.
Stephen ParrHOST
Yeah.
Stephen ParrHOST
Do you remember the movie Real Genius with Val Kilmer? Do you remember that movie? It's one of my favorite movies of ever.
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Happy travels start here.
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Weapons in Space.
Marion SummerallHOST
And a new podcast on the search for life in the universe and what happens next.
Marion SummerallHOST
You're listening to Are We There Yet? The radio show exploring space exploration.
Marion SummerallHOST
Hi, I'm Marion Summerall.
Brendan ByrneHOST
And I'm Brendan Byrne.
Brendan ByrneHOST
The U.S. confirmed it has weapons in space.
Brendan ByrneHOST
It's the first time U.S. officials have officially announced such a capability.
StilgherrianHOST
Tuesday, the 22nd of September, 2026.
StilgherrianHOST
The United States has confirmed that it has weapons in space, although they haven't really explained what kind.
StilgherrianHOST
So let's do an episode on...
StilgherrianHOST
So is space archaeologist Dr. Alice Gorman, a.k.a. Dr.
Alice GormanGUEST
To go on and say they're expecting more in space.
Alice GormanGUEST
Yeah, I mean,
Rami MandowGUEST
it's like they're kind of, to me, again, they're kind of normalizing this idea and this like concept of, hey, yeah, we've got weapons in space.
Rami MandowGUEST
Hey, we've got, there's a war happening in space.
PreauXXHOST
I saw this online.
PreauXXHOST
It said, the U.S. military said it has deployed weapons in space.
PreauXXHOST
And I bring this to you to say, family, we have finally made it, y'all.
PreauXXHOST
We are finally living in Star Wars, y'all.
Simeon BoikovGUEST
This escalation, this escalation means that we don't even have to think about conspiracy theories or UFO things.
Simeon BoikovGUEST
There could be very easily space weapons now.
Simeon BoikovGUEST
And the United States last week are announcing that they're getting back into the militarization of space.
Simeon BoikovGUEST
Which they never got out of it.
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