Wait, where are nukes entering into this? The article was about tactical defenses for warplanes, I don't think anybody still has nukes in their air-to-air arse

Wait, where are nukes entering into this? The article was about tactical defenses for warplanes, I don't think anybody still has nukes in their air-to-air arsenals after the 70s. When you're talking about ICBMs with MIRVed warheads decoys can make a lot of sense because in space a 10 kg balloon looks a lot like a 500 kg warhead. But in the atmosphere they're very easy to tell apart and nobody talks about decoy missiles.