Opinion: A Russian weapon could wipe out US space edge

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Editor’s note: Clayton Swope is the deputy director of the Aerospace Security Project and a senior fellow in the International Security Program at the Center for Strategic and International Studies, a nonpartisan think tank in Washington, DC. He previously was a congressional staffer and worked at the CIA. The views expressed in this commentary are his own. Read more opinion at CNN. CNN — Early this month, senior US officials publicly shared their startling concern that a Russian anti-satellite weapon could make parts of space critical to American economic and national security unusable for up to a year. Clayton Swope...