Could/would the EMP effect of airburst nukes affect satellites? Was there any Cold War experimentation with using low yield nukes to kill satellites?
Also, could debris from ASAT kills in turn kill other satellites? Even a single, small, errant nut or bolt travelling at orbital speed could destroy or irreparably damage a satellite.
What about damage to the ground-based command and control systems, relays, links, etc. Would that pretty much make even still-functional satellites more or less useless?
I'm in the camp that there would be very few satellites still operational come 2000, and those that aren't of much use due to the destruction of ground-based satellite coms infrastructure.
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