Here is what Ronald Reagan meant when he was trying t sell protection under our nuclear umbrella in the 80's' The triggering device in an atomic or nuclear bomb is an electronic device. A nuclear implosion will drain the electrons of about a 20 mile radius for a period of time not allowing you to start your car. President Eisenhower deployed NIKE missiles and the DEW line (distant early warning radar) in the late 50’s after the Russians launched Sputnik. The NIKE’s were tipped with clean (no radioactive fallout) neutron bombs with a small kill radius (1500 yds) which will incapacitate an electronic trigger and will allow the population to safely move back into a bombed region within 45 days. The military term for this phenomenon is nuclear fratricide. Silo launch officers were psychologically screened to establish their willingness to follow orders to hit local American targets as a deterrent to an enemy nuclear weapon imploding at that location. As a precaution, there were two launch officers with their own key, both armed with a pistol in every silo to shoot any reluctant officer in case they balked at launching the missile because of family visiting ground zero on that day. This information was provided by U.S. Army Capt. Ronald E Lee of Rockford Illinois,who served in the nuclear NIKE missile silo's north of Detroit during the 1960's.

Ronald Reagan tried to share protection under our nuclear umbrella (short range tactical nuclear weapons) with Europe in the 1980’s but was met with protests and withdrew them. Colonel William R. Higgens who was head of NATO security at the time was reassigned to Beirut, Lebanon, captured, tortured, and killed, revealing the secret of the nuclear umbrella. The USSR immediately surrounded their cities with radar and short range missiles in violation of the SALT Treaty. We renegotiated the treaty and they shared with us the secret of the EMP (electro-magnetic pulse) bomb, which is not nuclear and only causes minor local damage. The EMP will knock out the electronic trigger of an incoming bomb, an entire electrical grid, all computer devices and memory, also electronics of planes in the region which is why the Russian military jets still have mechanical controls.