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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The kinds of systems designed for this are called Point Defense systems- shooting shit out of the air, be it an airplane or a missile, is a monumentally difficult task. Planes, you can pull it off reasonably often if they get close. Missiles? Incredibly difficult. ICBMs that cross the planet, aren’t even near the surface until they’re too close to shoot down safely, and are traveling at multiple times the speed of sound? Nigh impossible.
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