I’m aware that it’s illegal to put any kind of weapon in space, for the sake of the explanation assume there’s no legal reason why not.
My Grug Smash brain has me wondering that if nuclear weapons are so difficult to properly dispose of, surely the easiest option would be to set them off somewhere where they can’t cause any damage.
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Setting them off isn’t the best way to dispose of them.
A nuke has been detonated in space before. Since there is no air to heat and dissipate the energy more, a much higher frequency of radiation was emitted and the radiation circled the globe.
That happened a long time ago when we didn’t have so many sensitive satellites in orbit. If we done that now we would damaged so many satellites. To put them onto rockets to blast far away from earth would cost so much, it would be cheaper just to confine the radioactive elements here on earth
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