Nuclear Vault | High Altitude Nuclear Weapon Effects • Part Two • Systems Interference @nuclearvault | Uploaded March 2019 | Updated October 2024, 8 hours ago.
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Through past nuclear testing, the Department of Defense and the Atomic Energy Commission determined that a nuclear weapon exploded at high altitude with a sufficient yield would cause adverse effects on communication and radar devices.
This technically oriented video, which uses many animated audio-visual aids to explain scientific points of interest and explores the weapons’ effects on military systems. The first portion deals with
a hypothetical reentry vehicle armed with a nuclear warhead. The video explains how three different nuclear detonations might be required to track and destroy the incoming vehicle. The next portion explains how a nuclear explosion would more adversely affect the low-power downlink of radio transmissions to aircraft or satellites than the more powerful uplink. Other atmospheric chemistry and infrared systems problems are discussed in the video.
Publication date 1963
1963 Color Sanitized 16:29
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Through past nuclear testing, the Department of Defense and the Atomic Energy Commission determined that a nuclear weapon exploded at high altitude with a sufficient yield would cause adverse effects on communication and radar devices.
This technically oriented video, which uses many animated audio-visual aids to explain scientific points of interest and explores the weapons’ effects on military systems. The first portion deals with
a hypothetical reentry vehicle armed with a nuclear warhead. The video explains how three different nuclear detonations might be required to track and destroy the incoming vehicle. The next portion explains how a nuclear explosion would more adversely affect the low-power downlink of radio transmissions to aircraft or satellites than the more powerful uplink. Other atmospheric chemistry and infrared systems problems are discussed in the video.
Publication date 1963
1963 Color Sanitized 16:29
