On 6 Apr 2016 at 17:46, Kurt Feltenberger wrote:

> This question touches on the known and theoretical...
>
> Are there any particles or emissions, however faint, known or theorized,
> that would allow a sufficiently sensitive sensor to detect a nuclear
> detonation (actually, enough to destroy all civilization on a world of
> ~7+ billion people in a day) at interstellar distances either as it
> happened or within a short (less than a week or so) period of time?
>
> My gut says no, but with mesons and other goodies that are on the
> bleeding edge, I figured I'd ask and see what the hive has to say.

Nope. The only thing FTL in Traveller are the ships.

So anything propogating from the detonations would be moving at
lightspeed or less. Meaning it'd take 3.26 years to cross a parsec.

Heck, given the inverse square law, you'd have to be watching
carefully to notice it from the outer part of the same solar system.

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