I've been contemplating a scenario where nuclear dampers are used and
had some questions regarding their deployment and effects.

1.  When defending against nuclear missiles, what exactly happens to the
nuclear warhead that the damper targets?  Does the warhead still
detonate but due to the damper field fail to reach critical mass and
thus produce a nuclear explosion?  (which sort of begs the question
about how useful tossing nuclear bombs at each other in space really is...)

2.  In one of the various products (or maybe a periodical article from
decades back), there was a comment that dampers were used to clean up
after nuclear accidents and nuclear attacks.  Again, how would this
work?  It would seem like this is something akin to Dr. Feelgood's
Fallout and Half-Live accelerator tonic in that it somehow accelerates
decay to an absurd speed.

Thanks!

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