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Originally Posted by gimpy117
nobody wins WW3
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Originally Posted by Codz
If it's nuclear. If it were conventional, it might have victors.
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Nukes are not some kind of silver bullet, there delivery methods are quite conventional. There was a reason we built 32,000 of the things (and its not that Russia was a big country). We did not expect a large number to make it to their targets.
We have had ABM systems since the 1960s. ASATs were deployed in the USAF a year after Sputnik.
The "Star Wars" weapons of Reagan's era were very nearly a reality.
The reason these were not developed was political.
With the threat of a real nuclear war working countermeasures could quickly be deployed (not counting an "out of the blue" type of attack by the guy with a single bomb).
If we are talking about a WWII with nuclear weapons than both sides would have some kind of countermeasures already. If one side has ballistic missiles, the other side would be developing ABMs. If one side has high altitude bombers than the other side would be developing interceptors or SAMs, boomers; hunter-killers and so on.