Republican presidential candidate Nikki Haley joins 'Fox & Friends' to discuss the threat of Russia's plans to send nuclear weapons to space and argue former President Trump 'won't win' in 2024

You heard Russian President Vladimir Putin is working on a nasty, new nuclear anti-satellite weapon. Leaders in Congress were briefed last week in a highly secret session, but it left me wondering: exactly what is Putin targeting?

Putin could make a real mess if he detonates a nuclear weapon on orbit.

America exploded a 1.45 megaton nuke in space over the Pacific in July 1962. "Crime of the atom-mongers," wailed the Soviet Union. The experiment lit up the skies with sinister red and pink blotches and knocked out phone service in Honolulu, 1,100 miles away.

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Back then, the U.S. had only a handful of satellites in orbit. Radiation from what they called the Starfish Prime test settled into the Van Allen Belts that gird our planet and wore out a brand-new AT&T Telstar communications satellite after just a few months. Aghast, the U.S. and Soviet Union gave up exoatmospheric tests and signed the Limited Test Ban Treaty in 1963.

In this photo released by Roscosmos State Space Corporation, Russian Soyuz 2.1a with the Progress MS-26 cargo spaceship blasts off at the Russian leased Baikonur cosmodrome in Baikonur, Kazakhstan, on Thursday, Feb. 15, 2024. Russia's military use of space poses a serious threat to the U.S. (Roscosmos State........

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