Nukes in this day and age seem to me like they should effectively be obsolete. I feel like in the age of satellite observation and the idea of geo-privacy being basically null, every developed country ought to have anti icbm tech, similar to an mrap. Short of mass amounts of dirty bombs, I feel like nuclear war should be a non issue in modern times.
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This does seem like a good project for the UN to undertake tbh, but the member states wouldn’t allow it (Russia, US, China specifically).
Even if they were to solve the icbm intercept issue, there are multiple other ways to deliver those payloads.
A space based system, to me, seems like the easiest way to intercept an ICBM. No worry about things like air resistance messing with plotting the intercept (or very little air resistance if it’s in a lower orbit).
I know nothing about this stuff to be honest, just some research on icbms and about 1000 hours in kerbal space program. Fun to imagine how it would be done though.
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