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While nuke launching capacity might stay intact, the discovery / tracking might not. So let's say NK launches 10 nukes that land in Russia and 10 nukes that lan
by FpUser 4y ago
While nuke launching capacity might stay intact, the discovery / tracking might not. So let's say NK launches 10 nukes that land in Russia and 10 nukes that land in the US.
- coeneedell 4y agoI’m not an expert on these kinds of devices so take this with a grain of salt, but it’s my understanding that while radar cannot be shielded, sonar can.
- FpUser 4y agoNot an expert either so let's hope that something like this never happens.
- Phlarp 4y agoSatellite based launch detection would likely suffer. Literally one detection method we use is measuring ionospheric disturbances caused by a rocket punching through the atmosphere. I’d imagine a solar storm is going to A) Destroy the satellites that measure this and B) generate enough ionospheric noise to invalidate the monitoring.