Here’s What You Need to Remember: Though there probably won’t be “rods from God” hurtling through the heavens towards, say, underground Iranian nuclear bunkers, that doesn’t mean that the United ...

During the Cold War, U.S. researchers explored a controversial weapon concept known as “Rods From God.” The idea was simple but terrifying: place massive tungsten rods in orbit and drop them toward ...

With no fanfare, the Bush Administration is taking military control of what it terms “near space,” thereby laying claim to the area of the Solar System that lies between the Earth and the Moon’s orbit ...

The concept of “Rods from God” refers to the idea of kinetic orbital bombardment—using tungsten rods dropped from orbit to strike targets on Earth with immense destructive power. This video traces the ...