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> "I've few years ago hear, US gov't created app..." At least at one point they had satellites deployed for this purpose. The phenomena they used to determine
by ajxs 5y ago
> "I've few years ago hear, US gov't created app..."
At least at one point they had satellites deployed for this purpose. The phenomena they used to determine whether a detonation had taken place was the characteristic 'double flash'. You can read some more about this here: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Vela_incident https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Vela_incident
They don't need to resort to such clandestine measures as infiltrating people's smartphones for this purpose. A nuclear blast was a pretty difficult thing to hide even 40 years ago.
- simne 5y ago> satellites deployed for this purpose You missing point. I know about world system of monitoring for nuke explosions, but I don't talk about it. I mean, threat of use nuke by terrorists is very close by its consequences to real blast. Imagine, how much panic will happen, if appear plausible claim, that terrorists have nuke, which they planning to use in one of biggest US cities. So special semi-military agencies, constantly working on eliminating possibility that terrorists will have access even to radioactive waste, not even speaking about enriched materials. And this is what differ Western system of values from Russian or Asian - in Western system, lost of even one person considered unacceptable, but Russians accept sacrifice 20k of soldiers for crazy escapade, which they see in what now happen in Ukraine.