[BitWielder1]

I certainly hope that when the day comes we HAVE to use a nuke to protect ourselves, we have the brass, and the nukes, to do so.
When we are about to be smashed to smithereens is not the time to play "green".

[djf]

Trouble is, we’ve lost our launch capabilities.

This was all heavily studied in the late 60’s under “Project Icarus”, an MIT study.

I remember when I was in college I worked in the library back then putting books back on the shelves. I stumbled across the Icarus study and sat down in the aisles and read it...

99.9% certain now that we would just blast it into a different orbit.