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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ICBMs travel a lot faster than your average missile. They’re much harder to hit, particularly at altitude, and often release multiple warheads when they get closer to ground.

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