Commercial satellite systems at risk from nuclear after-effects

Despite ongoing Department of Defense efforts to alert industry to the danger, commercial satellite systems remain undefended from the effects of nuclear explosions in space, according to specialists in nuclear threat deterrence. The radiation effects from even a single low-yield detonation in orbit...

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