As someone with experience in this field, I can tell you with utmost certainty that the missiles the West fired at ICBMs are certainly not more expensive or technically harder than either of the aforementioned missiles. ICBMs in particular are almost a non threat to the world
Wikipedia disagrees, though notes that there are weapons that can beat current defence technology
The Soviet Union could produce enough missiles to overwhelm any defence. Russia now couldn’t afford to maintain a large arsenal, though China can. China doesn’t seem as likely to launch a first strike as the USSR did.
Of course those systems aren’t protecting you unless you live somewhere important
there’s no practical defence against nukes
Yes there is, you just blow it up while it’s in space
you would need something silly like 50x more interceptors than ICBMs and SLBMs and these are more expensive and technically harder than either
As someone with experience in this field, I can tell you with utmost certainty that the missiles the West fired at ICBMs are certainly not more expensive or technically harder than either of the aforementioned missiles. ICBMs in particular are almost a non threat to the world
Wikipedia disagrees, though notes that there are weapons that can beat current defence technology
The Soviet Union could produce enough missiles to overwhelm any defence. Russia now couldn’t afford to maintain a large arsenal, though China can. China doesn’t seem as likely to launch a first strike as the USSR did.
Of course those systems aren’t protecting you unless you live somewhere important
What? You can’t say wikipedia disagrees when it lists weapons that can beat current defenses.