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By my understanding, fallout is less a function of the explosion being nuclear and more of how the bomb is detonated.

Dad thought it was quite funny, the shower of fish in the air when the shell detonated.

Wouldn't a low yield nuclear weapon detonated at a relatively low altitude generate a localized EMP?

A nuclear weapon detonated in low earth orbit would not destroy a single global navigation satellite.

On February 26, 2004, it was publicly detonated by special effects expert Michael Lantieri.

A nuclear weapon detonated in medium earth orbit would wipe out between 0 and 1 navigation satellite, depending on how close you get.

There have been over 2,000 nuclear weapons detonated in the last 70 years.

The lock had been placed on the bomber, not inside the bombs—and a stolen weapon could still be detonated with a simple DC signal.

I'd say we have a pretty good idea about what nukes do, since we already detonated more than 2.000 of them.

It was eventually detonated in a weapons test in 1946.

> Wouldn't a low yield nuclear weapon detonated at a relatively low altitude generate a localized EMP?

One possibility (other than 'reaper' aliens) I can think of would be a natural nuclear reactor that actually went fully supercritical and detonated.

It would take only one nuclear device being "detonated" in low orbit, to wipe out nearly all of the satellites in a large area of that space.

According to wikipedia: "Due to crosswind, the bomb missed the aiming point, the Aioi Bridge, by approximately 800 ft (240 m) and detonated directly over Shima Surgical Clinic"

But OO doesn't work because webbrowsers have detonated a hydrogen bomb of "historic reasons for this API" over the worst UI toolkit ever, and abstractions, whether OO or..., simply don't work well over this.

> It would take only one nuclear device being "detonated" in low orbit, to wipe out nearly all of the satellites in a large area of that space.