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auraithx@lemmy.dbzer0.com ⁨2⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago

I think the US has already achieved it and aren’t saying anything.

Think how much money they’ve poured in there over the decades, as much as the rest of the world combined.

They were working on directed energy weapons in the 80s to neutralise them from space, but the tech was ‘decades away’. They had a working pilot way back in 2000 too.

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Ziggurat@jlai.lu ⁨2⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago
The problem is that with the MAD doctrine, it’s not about neutrajazing a warning shot where a tactical nuke would neutralise an aircraft carrier fleet or an tank division. It’s about dozens if not hundred of nuke flying to your country.

Even 80% efficiency in the counter measure would mean remove 10 of the 50 big cities from the map. This has drastic consequences for a country. Especially in a hyper connected, advanced industry society

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Clinicallydepressedpoochie@lemmy.world ⁨2⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago
Ok, how do you feel about elon musk (and subsequently russia) gain access to some of our most classified data.

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- auraithx@lemmy.dbzer0.com ⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ ago
  We’re cooked.
  
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