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Stephen Schwartz
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Editor/Co-author, “Atomic Audit: The Costs and Consequences of US Nuclear Weapons Since 1940” • I write primarily about nuclear weapons (including history, costs, accidents, and policy), and the Presidential Emergency Satchel (aka the nuclear “Football”).
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If you're talking about what happens around one minute, no that's not decoys (or the warhead). That's debris caused when the second stage separates from the third stage (which carries the warhead and any decoys out of the atmosphere) and the third stage rocket motor fires.
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Stephen Schwartz
@atomicanalyst.bsky.social
Editor/Co-author, “Atomic Audit: The Costs and Consequences of US Nuclear Weapons Since 1940” • I write primarily about nuclear weapons (including history, costs, accidents, and policy), and the Presidential Emergency Satchel (aka the nuclear “Football”).
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