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Ok so the idea is this, arrays or matrices above cities or whole countries, of balloons at around 35 km up, the balloons are in a grid or other pattern or set distance away from each other. The point is to be a shield in a way by forcing incoming missiles to detonate higher up and thus protecting the stuff below from everything except the radiation.


Of course the balloons couldn’t cover the whole sky so can't rely on the missile just hitting them and even if the missile did hit it almost certainly would not detonate. Therefore there would have to some way of forcing the detonation, possibly with an explosion of its own.


According to my calculations, using the ridiculous assumption that each balloon has its own nuclear device on it to minimize the the wight and number of balloons in the array, between 25,000 and 2,000,000 nodes would be necessary to cover the whole uk. This is obviously stupid.


So is there anyway to make the basic concept work or no, would future technology make it work or make it pointless, and if it could work in some form what's the earliest it could be build?


p.s. I think with 60’s tech you could get the balloons up to height, and even at that height the trar bomba is big enough to burn the ground from 35 km up. is this a sily question?
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