From: utzoo!decvax!pur-ee!uiucdcs!grunwald Newsgroups: net.space Title: Re: July 4th. speech - (nf) Article-I.D.: uiucdcs.210 Posted: Sun Jun 27 00:26:10 1982 Received: Mon Jun 28 08:56:33 1982 Reply-To: $s #R:pur-phy:-35000:uiucdcs:12700002:000:423 uiucdcs!grunwald Jun 26 23:36:00 1982 Not only that, but a recent article in Science magizine points out that "killer satilites" can be destroyed in large numbers by a low orbit nuclear explosion. Basically, the damage is caused by a large voltage increase, frying the satilite. It only takes a small bomb to do this to a large area, and it is difficult to protect against. I'm not sure which issue of Science it was in, but it was within the last 6 months.