“Star Wars wasn’t putting nukes in space”
OK—but the idea was to shoot down missiles any way you can—from wherever you can.
If nukes were the best choice then they would have used them.
The notion that “nukes in space” is a new horrible threat is absurd on its face.
The technology is old—it is just a question of whether it was useful or not.
I don’t disagree. I think nukes in space is a bad idea because they would blind everything in a pretty large area where they are detonated. They are certainly not very discriminating.
I would be concerned because they could be used to detonate a nuke at elevation that could effect an EMP that could impact a large region of the land below it.
Using a nuke in space is more akin to a sledge hammer than a scalpel.
That said, I am not peeved at the method that was used to get this out into the public. It was middle school drama queen crap. Our “leaders” are just out of control these days. It is a clumsy and irresponsible political farce.
I wrote I wasn’t peeved about how this was done. That was a typo. I AM peeved at how this was done. it was stupid.