eli5: why can’t we intercept nuclear missiles?

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eli5: why can’t we intercept nuclear missiles?

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We can, just the risk is certain other sides might simultaneously lob a thousand or so of them at us, at which point even a ~99% success rate in shooting them down means a dozen cities still get nuked.

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