Pretty much everything I’ve ever seen that’s been “hardened against a nuclear explosion” on the ground is like 15 feet thick of steel, lead, and concrete. Yet Air Force One is supposed to be able to survive a nuclear blast (I’m guessing not literally right on top of, but nearby and radioactive).
Wouldn’t something thin-skinned like an airplane, by it’s very nature by unable to be shielded from a nuclear blast/radiation?
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People have spoken about shielding electronics.
The other part is having redundant systems that are offline and fully protected so when the first set of critical electronics are destroyed by EMP, there is a second set of electronics that were protected that can be brought online.
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