Got Paper Maps? Putin Could Attack Our GPS

Eric F. Frazier
6 min readMar 9, 2022

You’ve heard, no doubt, that Vladimir Putin threatened to nuke anyone who “interferes” with his rape of Ukraine. But did you know that he threatened to destroy America’s entire fleet of GPS satellites back on November 15, 2021?

Major media quickly moved on from that threat, which is arguably the more credible one.

Nobody knows whether Putin is willing to unleash nuclear Armageddon if he cannot achieve his dreams for Russian empire. Mutual assured destruction (MAD), the crazy calculus of the atomic age that makes launching nukes…

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Eric F. Frazier

Eric F. Frazier is an independent writer, editor, book reviewer and co-author of GPS Declassified: From Smart Bombs to Smartphones.