SkepticSteve
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This question has been baffling me for a while due to claims about visitations of nuclear facilities and technologies by UAPs (e.g. just search for Bob Sallas and you will find enough material).
Assuming you are an ET: How would you identify a nuclear technology remotely without any direct knowledge about it? It's easy with power plants that dispose isotopes with waste through chimneys. And production sites and larger concentrations of nuclear material could be considered to significantly distort the gravitational field. But it becomes much more difficult to make the case for more isolated concentrations such as nuclear warheads, missiles and ICBMs. You can forget about alpha and beta radiation due to their short range. So only gamma radiation remains, but it usually scales 1/r^2 in distance r. So unless you set up a giant Geiger counter you should be unlikely to detect it.
Assuming you are an ET: How would you identify a nuclear technology remotely without any direct knowledge about it? It's easy with power plants that dispose isotopes with waste through chimneys. And production sites and larger concentrations of nuclear material could be considered to significantly distort the gravitational field. But it becomes much more difficult to make the case for more isolated concentrations such as nuclear warheads, missiles and ICBMs. You can forget about alpha and beta radiation due to their short range. So only gamma radiation remains, but it usually scales 1/r^2 in distance r. So unless you set up a giant Geiger counter you should be unlikely to detect it.
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