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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Ohhhhhh, **it can be done**, on a certain scale.
Governments have no interest in disclosing all their defensive capabilities to their enemies.
But even so, the US was showing successful interceptions several years ago. And if that’s what they were letting the public see then….
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EDIT: There are a lot of good answers here from people who know more than I. Just to be clear, I’m not anywhere near saying that MAD is outdated, or any country could 100% prevent obliteration. I’m just pointing out that if history is any guide, we the public won’t know what the armed forces can REALLY do in 2022 for a couple more decades.
We used smart bombs, to a degree, during **Vietnam** (I know people who built them back then, and I know where they worked.) But their existence was mostly a secret until Gulf War 1… 20 years later.
“If they show you a mouse, they’re hiding an elephant.”
EDIT EDIT: A lot of these comparisons are just silly. Trying to hit a bullet with another bullet? Y’all make it sound like there would be a human element to it when this is something quantum computers would be doing, literally a trillion times faster. It’s definitely possible.
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