Plus we have a bunch of satellite hosted NUDET detectors

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Plus we have a bunch of satellite hosted NUDET detectors

Larry J — 9/19/2004 1:15:56 PM (archived)

Quite a few of our military satellites have NUDET (nuclear detonation) detectors as secondary payloads. This technology has evolved from the old VELA satellite program into a small package that is carried on at least two military satellite programs that I know about. There isn't any way to hide a nuclear detonation.

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All Things Point to North Korea Nuclear Detonation - SDAI-Tech1 - 9/18/2004 4:30:53 AM
- No microwave pulse + No siesmic pulse = No nuclear explostion (n/t) - David F Mayer - 9/20/2004 2:12:23 PM
- IAEA Chief Says Cannot Rule Out Korea Nuke Blast - SDAI-Tech1 - 9/19/2004 9:40:20 PM
- Nuclear blasts have a characteristic, double pulse, seismic pattern. - jms - 9/18/2004 2:30:19 PM
  - Plus we have a bunch of satellite hosted NUDET detectors - Larry J - 9/19/2004 1:15:56 PM
  - "It was determined that nothing unusual had been picked up" - SDAI-Tech1 - 9/18/2004 6:01:07 PM
    - When it comes to nukes, I don't trust any country. - jms - 9/18/2004 7:20:15 PM
      - South Africa shot off a couple nukes that were never really reported - Gary - 9/18/2004 9:26:08 PM
        
        Do you ever wonder... - jms - 9/18/2004 11:10:26 PM
- A large conventional explosion could account for all of that except the radioactive questions (n/t) - ebnelson - 9/18/2004 12:34:40 PM
- There's a tough crowd here. (n/t) - sean - 9/18/2004 12:04:47 PM
  - Oh there are about twenty folks... - SDAI-Tech1 - 9/18/2004 6:34:15 PM
    - I hope you don't keep your sister locked up in the basement. (n/t) - jms - 9/18/2004 7:29:19 PM
    - Hello, Paris. How's your sister these days? - Mary Anne - 9/18/2004 7:22:52 PM
      - Doing very well. - SDAI-Tech1 - 9/18/2004 8:02:56 PM
        
        re: Apollo - Raoul - 9/19/2004 12:31:01 AM
        
        Hector wasn't a drag until he was dragged. (n/t) - jms - 9/18/2004 8:47:52 PM
        
        That Achilles really was a heel, wasn't he? (n/t) - Mary Anne - 9/18/2004 11:18:09 PM
        
        Achilles was a heel, but not a complete dip. (n/t) - jms - 9/18/2004 11:48:06 PM
        
        Call it a latent tendon-cy... (n/t) - Fox - 9/19/2004 2:18:25 PM
        
        Achilles was a heel 'cause his mother wouldn't let go of her little boy. (n/t) - jms - 9/19/2004 2:34:48 PM
        
        SHE'S DATING HER BROTHER??? - Mary Anne - 9/18/2004 8:28:42 PM
        
        Recommended reading for mythology geeks: Messner-Loebs and Kieth's "Epicurus the Sage." - Tom Brosz - 9/18/2004 10:34:36 PM
        
        Those Greeks don't have an exclusive on creative relations... - SDAI-Tech1 - 9/18/2004 10:27:55 PM
  - Yeah. Some of us have known each other, virtually, for yonks. - Mary Anne - 9/18/2004 12:25:57 PM
    - Tolstoy said that, huh! - Bowser - 9/18/2004 12:33:39 PM
      - In "Anna Karenina". One of the great first lines of all time. (n/t) - Mary Anne - 9/18/2004 6:05:55 PM
- Nothing points to that, you idiot! - R.L. - 9/18/2004 10:38:07 AM
  - Technically, you are correct about the explosion. Perhaps you could have said it more politely. (n/t) - David F Mayer - 9/20/2004 2:13:21 PM
- That just points to some blog. You said "all things", not some blog. - Bowser - 9/18/2004 4:46:49 AM
  - re: That just points to some blog. You said "all things", not some blog. - SDAI-Tech1 - 9/18/2004 4:59:46 AM

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