The US military recently held a classified exercise to deal with a nuke in space | US officials have said a nuclear detonation would render portions of low-Earth orbit useless for up to a year.
by FreeHugs23
The US military recently held a classified exercise to deal with a nuke in space | US officials have said a nuclear detonation would render portions of low-Earth orbit useless for up to a year.
by FreeHugs23
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>US Space Command is inviting commercial companies to participate in a new series of classified wargames. The first exercise simulated a scenario involving a potential nuclear detonation in orbit.
>Gen. Stephen Whiting, the senior officer in charge of Space Command, discussed the new wargame series Tuesday in a discussion hosted by the Mitchell Institute for Aerospace Studies. Space Command is responsible for military activities in space and is separate from the Space Force, which provides the people and equipment to support those operations.
>The new wargames, called Apollo Insight, combine military and commercial expertise to respond to simulated threats in space. Space Command plans to conduct four Apollo Insight “tabletop exercises” this year.
>“We’ve done one already,” Whiting said. “We did one focused on a nuclear payload on orbit, which, of course, is a future we do not want to see, and that would violate the Outer Space Treaty. But we brought 60-something companies together at the classified level to share insights into what such a detonation might do, and then get their good ideas about how we could leverage capability to have today or future technologies that might help us going forward.”
So Iran (or someone else) doesn’t need to make a nuke to reach America, they can make one that goes 100 miles up and kills Starlink….
Project(operation): Argus, Fishbowl, and K(USSR) for actual test data
One thing that scares me most about nukes is not the nuke in the city; Sure, that sucks for the city and surrounding area’s – but nukes in space creating an EMP and wiping out all electronics below the blast area?
That can wipe out all electronics in Europe or the USA.
Imagine waking up and nothing works. No power. No internet. Telephones are dead, all your devices just show a black screen. TV doesn’t turn on. Radio’s wont work (even the hand cranked emergency radio’s), cars won’t start etc. And you have no idea what happened while you slowly starve to death as society collapses.
Makes sense, I believe there was suspicion during Bidens admin that Russia was trying to develop such a weapon.