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Phssthp0kThePak t1_iymlx61 wrote

Reply to comment by AnotherDreamer1024 in Is it possible that nuclear defense technologies will surpass the abilities of nuclear weapons in the future, rendering them near useless? by Wide-Escape-5618

How does the calculation change if the ABM is nuclear too? Politically we are relying on kinetic kill which seems way harder.

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zenfalc t1_iyodw5j wrote

It isn't actually, but that's because we're relying on direct hits. Place a warhead with tungsten "sand", a claymore like explosive, and a decent gimbal, in the cone, and just get close. The kinetic differential should make that extremely effective at disabling hardware across a radius of a dozen meters or so. Nuke is disabled if not shattered, and cheaply to boot.

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