• Lumisal@lemmy.world
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    11 hours ago

    Shooting down a nuclear icbm doesn’t really help as much as you think, if it catches it.

    Not to mention the atmosphere lighting up wouldn’t be much better

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        3 hours ago

        Doesn’t that depend on how they’re set up? I’d imagine in the 50+ years since they’ve been invented they would have designed it so it could, specifically because modern anti missile defenses exist.

        I mean, I know world governments can be dumb, but I would imagine they’re not that dumb as to bother maintaining a key super weapon just to not upgrade it / design it so that it won’t work if used.