In addition to the earlier "State Security Apparatus: The Knives Come Out For Elon Musk".
From the Asia Times, October 24:
China would target Elon Musk’s satellite system in a Taiwan war and now has a model to simulate high-altitude attacks
China has simulated using nuclear weapons to destroy near-earth orbit satellites, a capability that could knock out multiple enemy satellite constellations used to support military operations.
The Northwest Institute of Nuclear Technology, a Xian-based research institute run by the People’s Liberation Army, claims to have developed a model to evaluate the performance of nuclear anti-satellite weapons at different altitudes and yields with unprecedented detail and accuracy, according to news reports.
The research team’s simulation showed that a 10-megaton warhead could destroy satellites if it detonates at an altitude of 80 kilometers, with the blast turning air molecules into a pear-shaped cloud of radioactive particles that can cause failures and damage to satellites, nuclear physicist Liu Li and his team wrote in a paper published in the Nuclear Techniques peer-reviewed journal.
Liu’s team noted that a space-based nuclear explosion would be ineffective as the lack of air would not generate a large radioactive cloud. Furthermore, the Earth’s atmosphere would capture most of the high-energy particles created by the blast and spread it around the globe as a radiation belt, threatening a wide range of spacecraft.
This drawback makes space-based anti-satellite nuclear weapons broadly ineffective and dangerous.
In contrast, Liu says an atmospheric nuclear blast in near space can create a cloud with a far greater mass than the nuclear device itself. In addition, high concentrations of radioactive particles in the debris cloud amplify the effects on spacecraft and communications.....
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Great, so the model's say trip the nuke in the atmosphere, not in space.
And for Elon it just gets worse. In addition to both Ukraine and Russia being pissed at him, the U.S. putting him through the meat grinder of the State Security Apparatus, China planning to blast his stuff with nukes, in addition to all that now I'm hearing bad things about Luxembourg.
(they have a space program you know, and taking out Elon would be highest priority)
