why won’t there be a nuclear explosion if a nuclear weapon is shot down?

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why won’t there be a nuclear explosion if a nuclear weapon is shot down?

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The kinds of nuclear reactions used in bombs are very very difficult to bring about, and thus require a very precisely-tuned sequence of reactions, all to build up the necessary pressure and temperature needed to actually initiate a nuclear reaction. If anything fails to go off correctly, the reaction won’t progress into a nuclear explosion.