 U.S. believes Russia could deploy nukes in space this year. The U.S. has reportedly warned its allies that Russia is planning to deploy a nuclear weapon or a mock warhead into space sometime this year, Bloomberg claimed, citing anonymous sources. U.S. media reported last week that American intelligence had obtained information that Russia may already have deployed undisclosed anti-satellite weapons, possibly including nuclear weapons, to Earth's orbit or that it is planning to do so. Moscow has firmly denied the allegations, while Kremlin spokesman Dmitry Peskov has suggested they are simply a ploy to convince U.S. lawmakers to approve further military aid to Ukraine. In Bloomberg's article, sources claimed that Russia is indeed developing space-based weapons intended to knock out satellites. They alleged that Moscow does not currently appear to have plans to actually detonate orbital weapons, but argued there is a risk of a nuclear accident that could disrupt a third of all satellites in orbit and wreak havoc on global communications systems. But Russian President Vladimir Putin insisted that Moscow's position is clear and transparent. We have always been categorically against the deployment of nuclear weapons in space.