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   Nowhere Girl (gwynnion@mastodon.social)'s status on Thursday, 22-May-2025 07:47:41 JST Nowhere Girl

   We know this won't work. We know this can't work.

   "Trump rolls out Golden Dome missile defense project and appoints leader"

   https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025/may/20/trump-appoints-michael-guetlin-golden-dome

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     Nowhere Girl (gwynnion@mastodon.social)'s status on Thursday, 22-May-2025 07:47:41 JST Nowhere Girl

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     Attack is cheap, defense is expensive.

     Attack is easy, defense is hard.

     You can always overwhelm the system with more missiles, decoys, and countermeasures.

     Shooting down regular missiles is hard enough as it is. Patriot had a 5% success rate and Israeli propaganda aside, analysis suggests its Iron Dome is little better even over a tiny area.

     Shooting down ICBMs and hypersonic missiles is orders of magnitude more difficult and requires global coverage.

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     Nowhere Girl (gwynnion@mastodon.social)'s status on Thursday, 22-May-2025 07:48:17 JST Nowhere Girl

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     Every advance in missile defense is countered by an increase in attack capability because no one wants their nuclear deterrent to be useless.

     Every advance in this regard therefore brings us closer to nuclear war.

     Indeed, the entire purpose of SDI or "Golden Dome" technologies is to allow the US to use nuclear weapons with impunity, safe from reprisal.

     And everyone knows that.