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[–] jobes 0 points (+0|-0)

I hate to disappoint you, but I work with a guy who used to work on the US nuclear missile program. The guidance system was nothing special at all and a shocking number of nukes are not even functional anymore. Most of their computer systems were powered by normal batteries, many of which have not been changed since the 70s. Many nukes aren't even assembled because the radiation-detection-resistant silos were too expensive, the they keep the cores in protected rooms nearby to save on cost vs response time.

That deviated a bit, but the gist is missile guidance is simple. I'm assuming anti-missile is similar

I see, I had no idea it was such a duct-taped system. It makes a lot of sense though. Thanks for clearing that up for me.