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Yeah exactly. Shooting hundreds of bullets with your bullets. And each bullet you need to shoot breaks into smaller bullets upon re-entry that start randomly ma

Yeah exactly. Shooting hundreds of bullets with your bullets. And each bullet you need to shoot breaks into smaller bullets upon re-entry that start randomly maneuvering. Hit to kill is just not practical against a peer firing hundreds of ICBMs. That's why I suspect the US never stopped developing nuclear tipped ABMs with the Sprint I and II programs. They just went dark. It's the only logical way to defend against the only existential threat we face, and DC is gonna be first struck so you can bet the political class is incentivized to develop this. Why keep it secret? Well first it interferes with MAD which is very destabilizing. Also its good to hold your most important cards close to your chest. And there's the fact that the public would be uncomfortable with the idea that our plan to survive involves so much radiation being thrown around. A lot of incentive to not talk about it...

openasocket 2y ago
I don’t think that makes sense. Where are the vast stockpiles of missiles? The silos? The thousands of people who would need to be on ready alert to launch those missiles? This also would require the US to have been cheating on the START treaties and probably the ABM treaty when it was in effect as well. Also, nuclear-tipped ABM systems aren’t some sort of super power. Remember that all of this is happening in space at very high speeds. The Nike Zeus had to get within a kilometer of the target warhead before detonating. It’s not like you could throw a couple of these up and knock hundreds of incoming warheads out of the sky.
- LargoLasskhyfv 2y ago
  Not to forget: "Where are the rest of these?" https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Safeguard_Program#/media/File:SRMSC_MSR_HAER_ND-9-B.jpg https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Safeguard_Program#/media/File:... Or is there another option now, with the necessary coverage? From space, via SAT? Some sort of 'dent-detection' in the electromagnetic field instead, be it natural, or man-made?

openasocket 2y ago

I don’t think that makes sense. Where are the vast stockpiles of missiles? The silos? The thousands of people who would need to be on ready alert to launch those missiles? This also would require the US to have been cheating on the START treaties and probably the ABM treaty when it was in effect as well. Also, nuclear-tipped ABM systems aren’t some sort of super power. Remember that all of this is happening in space at very high speeds. The Nike Zeus had to get within a kilometer of the target warhead before detonating. It’s not like you could throw a couple of these up and knock hundreds of incoming warheads out of the sky.

LargoLasskhyfv 2y ago
Not to forget: "Where are the rest of these?" https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Safeguard_Program#/media/File:SRMSC_MSR_HAER_ND-9-B.jpg https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Safeguard_Program#/media/File:... Or is there another option now, with the necessary coverage? From space, via SAT? Some sort of 'dent-detection' in the electromagnetic field instead, be it natural, or man-made?