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Originally Posted by mapuc
I have sometimes wondered what would happen to the balance of terror(don't know if that is the correct phrase) if one of them (USA or Russia) developed a very advance defense system that allowed them to shoot down about 99-100 % of the ICBM or similar
Markus
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The answer is simple - that party is no longer detered by the nuclear weapons. If significant tensions exists this would likely result in a one sided (nuclear) war.