Turned off to make Open Source Monitoring far more difficult for people like us. They anticipated our efforts. They know we’ll try to get the warning out.

DARTS is probably tied into an automated alert system. This is the easiest point of deniability…”e.g, so sorry America- a rogue employee didn’t maintain them, or turned them of in an independent act of protest, we’ll be sure to investigate it and let you know what happened (in 900 years.)”

They want to maximize casualties in Conservative Coastal States. That and generalized depopulation/control.

Edit: damn autocorrect