Russia and the United States started to work on anti-meteor weapons

Confronting each other in the use of nuclear warheads, but now both the US and Russia have decided to start cooperation to develop nuclear weapons against the threat of meteorites threatening Earth.

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Recently, the two great powers Russia and the United States signed a nuclear cooperation agreement and jointly researched and developed technology to create "international shields", protecting the Earth from the attacks of meteorites in future. According to observers, this document provided the necessary legal framework to expand cooperation between Russian and US nuclear research laboratories.

The US Aerospace Agency (NASA) has discovered more than 10,000 meteorites moving in orbit that can bring them closer or collide with the Earth.(Photo: thecelestialconvergence.blogspot.com)

The idea for such bilateral cooperation has been around since 1995, when Soviet and US nuclear design experts met to discuss the potential threat of meteorites and how technology could stop block that threat. Since then, the US Space Agency (NASA) has discovered more than 10,000 meteorites moving in orbit that can bring them closer or collide with the Earth.

About 9% of these meteorites are thought to be more than 900 meters long, according to The Atlantic. The most dangerous meteorite, predicted to strike once every 700,000 years - 100 million years, can devastate the Earth, similar to how meteorites "wiped out" the dinosaurs on our planet. This is 65 million years.

However, the way experts warn, even smaller meteorites, only about 140 - 966 meters can flatten many cities or cause widespread damage.

Two years ago, physicist and nuclear weapons designer David Dearborn of the Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory in California, USA received unlimited funding for research on how to use weapons. anti-meteorite. Dearborn's work was carried out in parallel with the study of the Los Alamos National Laboratory, which is in charge of US nuclear weapons design.