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comment by kleinbl00
kleinbl00  ·  864 days ago  ·  link  ·    ·  parent  ·  post: "So there's been a nuclear attack..."

I'm curious what signal you'd be jamming, theoretically?

Nukes are truly fire-and-forget. Doctrine is to keep the arsenal high-survival until you loose the doves.

https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/b/b2/World-wide_delivery_in_30_minutes_or_less.JPG

The whole point of the exercise, from an American standpoint, is "get shit aloft in the amount of time between 'detection' and 'annihilation." Doctrine relies on a successful vengeance strike when C&C is assumed to be radioactive vapor. Meanwhile, the Soviet standpoint was "get shit aloft AFTER we're radioactive vapor because there's no way we can launch in 30 minutes."