On Sep 24, 2:22*pm, Home Guy wrote:
George wrote:
Except when a
satellite is tumbling toward you and forces you to reveal that you don't
have this detection capability.

P.S. Personally, if they announced an expected debris area, and my
house were dead center, the main thing I would do to prepare would be
to put a fresh tape in the video camera and take a chair out to the
middle of the yard just on the remote chance that some flaming bit of
debris came close enough to be seen.

You make a decent point about MAD, but they already know we can track
(more like predict) ICBMs. But we might not necessarily want them to
know if we can detect something that they haven't admitted to having
(but then we might, debatable).

It's also not out of the realm o possibility that NORAD didn't
particularly care. At any given time, there are a few thousand
passenger jets over the US (maybe 50-250 tons each). A few hundred
pounds of satellite debris is really not very interesting from a
defense perspective (except possibly as a test of capabilities).