The battlefield in the new world war can become space. This conclusion was reached by military experts, whose conclusions are set forth in an article in the publication Wired. It is noted that such powers as Russia, the US and China keep secret the development of space technologies, this makes it impossible to assess the forces of the opposing sides and leads to a gradual increase in tension. There are already so many satellites in orbit that the space has become like a war zone. There is a danger that when two large objects collide, a large number of fragments. which can lead to the inability to use the orbital space. Moreover, as the newspaper notes, the accidental destruction of a particular space object can be perceived by superpowers as a hostile act and lead to the declaration of war. When there was a threat that the arms race would spill into space, the world's largest countries signed the Outer Space Treaty in 1967, a document that bans the proliferation of weapons of mass destruction in the near-Earth space, on the Moon and other celestial bodies. However, the source warns, at present in this treaty there are too many loopholes that can be used to develop modern space weapons. In the opinion of competent experts, it is necessary to make serious efforts to avoid the accidental start of the Third World War..