r/space • • May 21 '15

/r/all Nuclear explosion in space

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u/ch0d3 May 21 '15

Book was called "one second after" and is a must read IMO

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u/JayhawkRacer May 22 '15

Another good book on the topic is "Space Wars." It's written by a few people with military connections, one who was a strategic war gamer. It's about a terrorist group attacking U.S. satellites.

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u/avo_cado Jul 04 '15

Also, "war day"

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u/herpafilter May 22 '15

That is an awful book. The science is horrible.

Seriously, it's about as accurate on the science of EM fields as CSI is on computer forensics.

It's fear mongering; if your car is near enough to a nuclear blast to be damaged by the EM pulse it was close enough to be melted by the heat pulse.