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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for the same reason we don’t have bullets that shoot down other bullets, it is really hard. icbm are bigger than bullets, but they are also moving an order of magnitude faster.

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