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Looks you could easily defend against this thing by storing nuclear warheads in an empty cavern, suspended by ropes in midair. Most of the heating isn't from neutrinos hitting the target, but hitting dense matter in a wide vicinity of the target, creating showers of secondary radiation. So creating a void around the target should give you many orders of magnitude of shielding.

Come to thing of it, orbital nuclear weapons would be pretty safe too?



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