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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Regular missiles are hard to hit. ICBM’s (which are fired from one continent to hit another) are much harder because of how fast they travel, and because they basically plummet out of space to hit their target.
But sure, let’s say we can intercept and shoot down most of them, most of the time. That’d be tough, but it *might* be doable, if you’re a big country with a well-funded high-tech military and you’re willing to pour big money into it.
The problem is that both the US and Russia have thousands of them. Even if you can shoot down 90% of them, you still get hit by hundreds of nukes. So what’s the point?
You also mention satellite observation, but that doesn’t help spot a missile in flight. That’s useful for observing big, slow targets like a convoy of tanks. A small, fast-moving missile is basically invisible to these satellites.
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