Relevant:

The U.S.’s Plans to Modernize Nuclear Weapons Are Dangerous and Unnecessary

U.S. rushes to revive nuclear weapons industry as global tensions mount

A gigantic new ICBM will take US nuclear missiles out of the Cold War-era but add 21st-century risks

U.S. to Develop Unanticipated New Nuclear Bomb

U.S. Withdraws From Intermediate-Range Nuclear Forces Treaty

The U.S. Exit From the Anti-Ballistic Missile Treaty Has Fueled a New Arms Race

Edit: for a dash of history, don’t forget

Unilateral Withdrawal From the ABM Treaty Is a Bad Idea

Did abandoning the ABM Treaty make America safer?

If Russia is talking openly about it, I’m sure they’ve already done it.

Haven’t they already put cannons in space? This seems like the next logical step.

Is there a reason they can’t use a conventional warhead to destroy a satellite? Even if they wanted to use it to attack a surface there isn’t a lot of evidence that a normal ICBM can be reliably intercepted so I doubt them being in space will change much.

Edit: *surface target

russia’s space program is sort of shit these days though?