From: nuny@bid.nes   
      
   On Friday, February 16, 2018 at 10:30:08 PM UTC-8, johnny1...@gmail.com wrote:   
   > Hypothetically, imagine a starship comes across a human-inhabited, Earth-like   
   > world, on which the former cities and centers of civilization have been   
   > heavily nuked.  Assume it's been at least decades since the bombs fell.   
   >    
   > My question is, what if any signs would differentiate the results of a big,   
   > world-wide nuclear exchange by locals on the planet, Cold War style, from a   
   > space-based bombardment carried out by outside forces?  Would there be   
   > anything that would strongly indicate one scenario over the other?   
      
     If all of the bombs hit population centers (even decades later, there will   
   be very obvious ruins of nuked cities) and none hit apparently sparsely   
   populated areas (like where we put launch silos) I'd strongly suspect it was   
   probably from space. Silos    
   are too easy to build and are too good a target to ignore.   
      
      
     Mark L. Fergerson   
      
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