> On Apr 6, 2016, at 3:36 PM, Craig Berry <xxxxxx@gmail.com> wrote:
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> A nuclear war is going to produce a spectrum very different from your general run of habitable star systems -- heavy on x-rays, for example.

nuclear weapons DO produce a lot of X-rays, IIRC, most if not all of them are absorbed by the atmosphere as it is turned into plasma and converted into heat.

In orbit you’ll see a ton of X-ray emissions, I’d think, but atmospheric explosions might not.

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