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- From: sysmgr@king.eng.umd.edu (Doug Mohney)
- Subject: Re: Who can launch antisats? (was Re: DoD launcher use)
- Message-ID: <1993Jan04.205508.23361@eng.umd.edu>
- Date: Mon, 04 Jan 93 20:55:08 GMT
- Organization: Computer Aided Design Lab, U. of Maryland College Park
- References: <1992Dec14.144135.14439@ke4zv.uucp> <1992Dec14.221347.3359@iti.org> <1992Dec16.092029.27518@ke4zv.uucp> <1992Dec16.202219.2063@eng.umd.edu> <1992Dec17.110426.8596@ke4zv.uucp> <1992Dec17.1 <1992Dec21.164114.1@fnala.fnal.gov> <1992Dec24.022440.27944@ke4zv.uucp>,<ewright.725665121@convex.convex.com>
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- In article <ewright.725665121@convex.convex.com>, ewright@convex.com (Edward V. Wright) writes:
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- >Achieving a precise orbit is not necessary to knock out a low-orbit
- >satellite. All of the nuclear powers have ballistic missiles capable
- >of lofting a warhead to orbital altitude, if not into orbit. Detonating
- >a small nuke in the general vicinity of a satellite, at the right
- >altitude, would do the job.
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- Sure. Technically speaking.
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- Actual use of a nuclear weapon in anything other than a superpower conflict
- would result in political consequences for the snot-nosed nation far and above
- what you'd want.
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- Not to mention the EMP problems you'd cause for commercial sats and (possibly)
- electronics on the ground.
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- It would be bad. And a waste of good fissionables for other purposes.
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-
- I have talked to Ehud, and lived.
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