Brenda Ann wrote:
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My question, perhaps a stupid one, but one that begs the asking nonetheless
would be:

If there is so much disruption to satellites from nuclear bombs, is there
going to be anyone around to use them (or care whether they are there or
not)?
acording various projections in the 1980's when I working for my Uncle
Sam in that feild more than 120 million amercians were expected to
survive a nuclear war of the Soveit Union, then depending oin part on
wether comincation (and other services could be kept working that
population may may only slightly or dramitc to 100 million or 20
million (the level subsistance ag could sustatian) so if you can keep
sat and other com links up ayou have the abilty to try to re knit
equipemtn with spare part know where esentcail drugg sould be deployed
and have a chance ( althought it looked pretty grim in those days) aof
sustaining much of the rest of the popualtion of the USA. Today only
the USA (and maybe the PRC have a real arsenal of worakbale nukes and
therefore far more amercians would be killed in any exchange (since I
dod assume if we launch out weapons it will at a non us target) it also
seems unlikely in any exchange today that the US would dump the rack
and matintining control of the nukes we have not launched would be
crtical use for our sats

irnoicaly the end of the cold has made Nuclear war seem More likely to
many folks becuase it would be a smaller war

hope that will do as an answer