German Defence Minister Boris Pistorius called for clarity following vague public reports from the United States that Russia may have made progress toward developing orbiting space-based anti-satellite nuclear weapons. “As far as I know, these reports are very, very new, at least to me,” Pistorius said on Thursday while attending a meeting of NATO defence ministers in Brussels. He added that the reports would be discussed with the partners. US media had previously reported, citing unnamed sources, that intelligence agencies had gathered information about Russia’s new nuclear ambitions in space…