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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Killing nukes in the air is like trying to shoot rain drops with your BB gun. You can hit the big target board in your back yard pretty easily, but trying to shoot rain drops is hard because they’re small, they’re moving around, and there are so many of them. You could have all your friends come over with their BB guns to help you shoot, but your parents don’t have enough money to buy all of you ammo to shoot and pizza rolls to feed you.

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