NASA may deploy nuclear weapons to the Moon under the cover of the Artemis program, Alexander Stepanov, military expert with the Institute of Law and National Security at the Russian Presidential Academy of National Economy and Public Administration, told TASS. The odds are high that nuclear weapons will be deployed in near-Earth and near-Moon space," he pointed out. "For instance, the Boeing X-37 spacecraft is capable of carrying up to six nuclear warheads," the expert specified. He stressed that in the past, the US had conducted explosions of nuclear weapons in order to assess their impact on space. "In 1962-1963, the US carried out Operation Dominic, which included a series of nuclear weapons tests.