Does anyone know if Rods From God actually exist, or is it just a mental exercise on paper by the Airforce?
A tungsten rod is a good way to take out a reactor without much fuss.
The rod would be dropped from the air and plummet to the reactor housing where it would punch a small hole in the containment, letting out a little puff of radioactivity before crashing through the reactor pile and embedding itself in the ground below the reaction chamber. The chamber would melt down over the rod, obliterating its presence and rendering the reactor unusable.
Probably, but no one is going to confirm it, and the numbers would be very small due to cost.
It probably cost about $10k to send a pound of payload to space. A 20 ft. tungsten rod could easily weigh 16,000 pounds.
“Does anyone know if Rods From God actually exist, or is it just a mental exercise on paper by the Airforce?”
Officially there are no space weapons due to treaty.
However I highly doubt that is reality.