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[-] kandoh@reddthat.com 2 points 7 months ago
[-] jettrscga@lemmy.world 6 points 7 months ago

I've legitimately been curious about this. The nuclear arms race has been a threat for so long, do western countries really not have a mitigation strategy for them?

I assume we could shoot down any intercontinental weapons, and any airplane that entered allied airspace would immediately be shot down before it could drop a nuke.

[-] kandoh@reddthat.com 2 points 7 months ago

A 99% success rate for shooting down ICBMs would still be a catastrophic failure that would set us back hundreds of years.

We're seeing it now in the middle eat and Ukraine. US Air Defense equipment is the best in the world but not impenetrable.

Not even considering that a nuclear submarine can just surface off the coast and destroy the nearest city.

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