Cheap Method for Shielding a City from Rocket and Nuclear Warhead Impacts

TL;DR

The paper proposes a low-cost, inflatable hemispherical AB-Dome that can shield cities from nuclear, chemical, and biological attacks, as well as provide environmental and utility benefits, by creating a protected enclosed system at high altitude.

Contribution

It introduces a novel, inexpensive AB-Dome design that offers comprehensive city protection and multifunctional uses, surpassing traditional anti-rocket systems in cost-effectiveness.

Findings

AB-Dome effectively shields against nuclear and chemical threats.

Construction is simple and significantly cheaper than existing systems.

The dome can serve multiple civilian and technological purposes.

Abstract

The author suggests a cheap closed AB-Dome which protects the densely populated cities from nuclear, chemical, biological weapon (bombs) delivered by warheads, strategic missiles, rockets, and various incarnations of aviation technology. The offered AB-Dome is also very useful in peacetime because it shields a city from exterior weather and creates a fine climate within the AB-Dome. The hemispherical AB-Dome is the inflatable, thin transparent film, located at altitude up to as much as 15 km, which converts the city into a closed-loop system. The film may be armored the stones which destroy the rockets and nuclear warhead. AB-Dome protects the city in case the World nuclear war and total poisoning the Earth atmosphere by radioactive fallout (gases and dust). Construction of the AB-Dome is easy; the enclosure film is spread upon the ground, the air pump is turned on, and the cover rises to its planned altitude and supported by a small air over-pressure. The offered method is cheaper by thousand times than protection of city by current anti-rocket systems. The AB-Dome may be also used (height up to 15 and more kilometers) for TV, communication, telescope, long distance location, tourism, high placed windmills (energy), illumination and entertainments. The author developed theory of AB-Dome, made estimation, computation and computed a typical project. Discussion and results are in the end of article.