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Originally Posted by FlameyMcFlameFace
Let’s just say war did happen. Don’t we have the infrastructure to shoot down nuclear war heads right out of the sky? I honestly don’t even believe Russia could sustain a nuclear fight with the west because one wouldn’t even touch our soil
Now I understand this could be an ignorant comment. But I’m sure we have these things in place
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I think you've been watching too many movies and science fiction. There are missile defense and early warning systems and failed programs such as the Star Wars program initiated by Reagan in the 80s but they were always more science fiction than fact and nothing is perfect.
If a single nuclear warhead gets through, you are talking about millions of deaths and an escalating global conflict of mutually assured destruction. There is no such thing as sustaining or winning a nuclear fight. A nuclear fight is simply global destruction for all with radiation and fallout lasting thousands of years.