MIT Professor Areg Danagoulian is proposing a way to determine if a satellite orbiting Earth contains a nuclear weapon. He describes his idea for a satellite-based sensor system that could orbit close by a suspect satellite and detect neutrons generated by high-energy protons colliding with radioactive material.

A nuclear weapon orbiting Earth would emit neutrons through its interactions with the planet’s space radiation environment, and these could be detected by satellites.

Prohibidas por el Tratado del Espacio Ultraterrestre de 1967, podrían destruir miles de satélites críticos, pero aún no hay un sistema para detectarlas