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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for aircraft this is meant in the sense that its onboard electronics are rated and shielded to be able to handle the massive EMP wave nuclear weapons can cause, whihc is important for an aricraft to stay on the air and said aircraft is supposed ot act as a mobile command center with the necessary players on board to authorize nuclear weapons(meaning its part of nuclear statregy around ensuring retaliatory capabilites.).
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