Conventional antiaircraft weapons seemed inadequate for destroying hundreds of Soviet bombers during a thermonuclear attack. Failing to shoot down a single plane could mean losing an American city. The Air Force believed that detonating atomic warheads in the skies above the United States and Canada would offer the best hope of success—and
This does make the atomic antiaircraft weapons make a lot more sense. I apologize to whatever sociopath thought of such a thing.
Atomic land mines, on the other hand, those just seem stupid.
