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Re:Study on US-Russia nuclear war: 91.5 MM casualties in fir... by foogazi on Saturday April 16, 2022 @02:59PM (#31055068)
> If the US built a full missile defense umbrella, adversaries would respond by building enough weapons to defeat the umbrella.

Could the adversaries afford that ?

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Re:Study on US-Russia nuclear war: 91.5 MM casualties in fir... by selectodude on Saturday April 16, 2022 @03:08PM (#31055139)
Israel’s iron dome can reasonably protect a decent portion of Israel. Destitute Gazans can still overwhelm it. If you don’t really care what you hit, missiles are very inexpensive.
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Re:Study on US-Russia nuclear war: 91.5 MM casualties in fir... by SubiculumCode on Saturday April 16, 2022 @03:15PM (#31055186)
It can do so because the number of missiles coming in at it are few.

In the end, dummy IBCMs are easy to build, and it will be hard for any system to shoot them all down if there are a thousand dummies for every live missile. Missile defense it ultimately impossible, IMO.

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Re:Study on US-Russia nuclear war: 91.5 MM casualties in fir... by dylan604 on Saturday April 16, 2022 @03:39PM (#31055417)
Some of us learned this in back in the 80s in the arcades playing Missle Command
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