Re: Five days notice
The USA almost certainly has nuclear weapons in orbit. After the Challenger disaster, the Vandenberg Shuttle launch facility was abandoned. NASA restarted Shuttle flights, so the Air Force were reluctant to launch something on the Shuttle, but it can't have been people or regular payloads, so it might be reasonable to deduce they intended to use the Shuttle to service an orbital weapons platform. This role appears to now be being serviced by the X-37.
So could these weapons be turned outward? Could their guidance systems intercept such a fast moving object? Hopefully we'll never need to know.
Biting the hand that feeds IT
