Shipbucket

I was under the impression that nuclear Talos and Standard were intended to disrupt guidance systems of ships and aircraft during the Macross Missile Spam attacks envisioned by Aegis, Typhon, etc, not be used to directly engage surface targets. Just like how the commies intended to employ nuclear ASMs to disrupt ESM and radar of USN CVBGs.

Nuclear EMP and the residual effects of it on electronics is probably more valuable than a nuclear explosion since it would allow conventional ASMs to slip past American/Soviet radar picket and sink the carrier/Kirov AIUT. v:

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The Chinese people are not to be cowed by U.S. atomic blackmail. Our country has a population of 600 million and an area of 9.6 [million sq. km]. The United States cannot annihilate the Chinese nation with its small stack of atom bombs. Even if the U.S. atom bombs were so powerful that, when dropped on China, they would make a hole right through the earth, or even blow it up, that would hardly mean anything to the universe as a whole, though it might be a major event for the solar system.

The EMP is a byproduct of the nuclear explosion in the first place, and most military-grade electronics are hardened against EMP blasts.

An EMP will still blind a radar if it gets close enough, nuclear or non-nuclear.

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The Chinese people are not to be cowed by U.S. atomic blackmail. Our country has a population of 600 million and an area of 9.6 [million sq. km]. The United States cannot annihilate the Chinese nation with its small stack of atom bombs. Even if the U.S. atom bombs were so powerful that, when dropped on China, they would make a hole right through the earth, or even blow it up, that would hardly mean anything to the universe as a whole, though it might be a major event for the solar system.