eli5. why isn’t the world set up to kill nukes in the air?

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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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People are gonna talk about how hard it is. I’ma go tin foil hat and say it’s already been done to some extent for a while but it is kept HEAVILY under wraps in fear of surging forward the Arms Race (or there is a secret arms race that isn’t public knowledge).

There’s definitely known attempts of counter measures and counter-countermeasures. But I would not be surprised if the world is much farther along than we realize

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