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Bonecollector
"To make matters more difficult, an ICBM can only be intercepted at certain points on its journey: when it launches, when it is out in space, and when it re-enters the atmosphere. Each of these phases “has its limitations”, said LiveScience.
During the launch phase, a country wishing to knock a nuclear bomb off course would have just a few minutes to respond. And countries that have historically been seen as a nuclear threat, such as Russia and China, “have large land masses”. This allows them to “keep their missiles far inland, meaning sea-based interceptors couldn’t get to a missile during its launch phase”.
And any intercepting missile would have to hit exactly the right spot on a nuclear bomb, or it could simply knock the missile off course and towards another, perhaps friendly, country. This is commonly known as the ‘shortfall’ problem. “You really have to be explicit and target the payload at the tip of the missile,” Grego told the site."
This is what it is all about. The US/ Nato's ability to knock out nukes at all 3 stages to give it the best chance of possibly not even getting hit by a single nuke. It would also then give them free reign to hold Russia to whatever position they wanted them in. This is what this war is really all about. I don't like it, many innocent people are dying on both sides. Putin is a [at][at][at][at] but I don't trust Zelensky. This is all in the end probably necessary but I don't revel in any of it, its very sad but this is how we are, just stupid monkeys doing monkey things.