Comments on: Nuclear Devices in Space

By: Michael Listner

Michael Listner — Sun, 05 Jan 2025 17:46:35 +0000

It’s notable the OST prohibition relates to the placement is very narrow and does implicated not the operation of nuclear devices in outer space. Thus, theoretically a nuclear weapons test in outer space would not be prohibited by the OST but might be implicated by the Nuclear Test Ban Treaty. FOBs, MOBs and ICBMs fall outside the OST as they are not placed in orbit as a deterrent.

By: Joe Buff

Joe Buff — Wed, 06 Nov 2024 13:27:47 +0000

Florent: Thanks much for your comment. Your paper is important and fascinating. And I agree with you completely: Effective asteroid & comet defense requires both nuclear propulsion for rapid-enough transit, and nuclear detonation for reliable-enough deflection. Even better would be basing such Space Rock Interceptors way out in space, scattered around the solar system, for more timely interception of threatening objects…. Which would all be total anathema to the blindly anti-nuclear “progressives” who keep denying basic realities of defense & deterrence.

By: Florent

Florent — Tue, 05 Nov 2024 13:17:48 +0000

The DART was already a nuclear tipped system, on the same foot as “conventional” weaponry is (non-implosion). It used a Water motor with an accelerator (from my article https://unisciencepub.com/wp-content/uploads/2022/03/A-Water-Motor-With-an-Accelerator-Water-With-High-Natural-Radioactivity-and-Fission.pdf ). There is no way one can be protected against space asteroids without nuclear fission, only people willing to conceal it to please the left-wing crowds.