NationStates Jolt Archive

As part of the GDI, AA are trying to improve the tight nuclear defense grid by trying new ideas. Except there is one problem. How can you stop a nuclear missle without a mid-air nuclear explosion.
AA planning lots of ideas and experiments, but there they are still on the drawing board.
Send your ideas (sending ideas is compulsary if you are uncomfartable with sending them in).

You could build a huge Electromagnet, the Electromagnet will have many sub Magnets infact it will have so many that the Magnetic field will be extremely intense. When you apply current to the Electromagnet it will interact with the Magnetic metals in the Missile, and because of the strength of the Electromagnet the parts of Magnetic metal will fly right out of the Missile causeing damage. If the Magnet is set on another type of current then the Missile could be attracted to it, however the idea is to repell it.

Or you could build a Giant Speaker and cause it to collapse in mid air.

You could try some form of EMP to shut the detonation circuits down, and this would prevent the missile from exploding (hopefully). Our scientist haven't tried this out yet, but in the future who knows?

You could try some form of EMP to shut the detonation circuits down, and this would prevent the missile from exploding (hopefully). Our scientist haven't tried this out yet, but in the future who knows?

That could also take out other things you want to take out like your own aircraft.

Isn't nuclear detonation very precise? I don't know much, seeing as i'm not a nuclear scientist, but I think that detonation of a nuke needs to be perfectly timed to work correctly. The explosion of another missle "should" screw up the implosion devises in the nuclear missle.
Maybe.

You could also use lasers. (remember the infamous Star Wars project initiated by the US using satellites in orbit to shoot down incoming ICBM's)

The detonation of a nuclear weapon depends entirely upon the implosion of a certain amount of TNT (or another high explosive) which will compress the nuclear material, increasing drastically the chance of neutrons from the radiation and detoriation of the nuclear material to strike other atoms and begin a chain reaction.

Firing a missile, or even a slug, at a nuclear weapon will stop this by forcing the TNT to explode rather than implode.