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Originally Posted by Olefin
For one it would be relatively easy to launch to low orbit using an air launch with a B-52 as the mother craft or similar aircraft. Also any surviving ICBM's (and based on the low use of those weapons there would be a bunch around) could easily be used as launch platforms
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I would recommend that those of us interested in this concept read Dale Brown's Dreamland series -- the military uses the aircraft of a contractor named John Masters to deploy what they call NIRTSATs -- Need It Right This Second sATellites.