At a Glance – Since the 1980s, the United States has invested considerable resources to develop and field ballistic missile defenses to protect the U.S. homeland from attack by long-range ballistic missiles. In recent years, concerns have arisen that another type of weapon—land-attack cruise missiles (LACMs)—may also pose a threat to the U.S. homeland. Unfortunately, the systems that the U.S. military has deployed to protect the United States from ballistic missile warheads that fly high above the atmosphere are ill-suited to counter LACMs, which fly close to Earth’s surface. This Congressional Budget Office report examines the potential for LACM attacks against the United States and the types of systems that might be fielded to provide a cruise missile defense with nationwide coverage. Such coverage would be analogous to that provided by national ballistic missile defenses.
Source: National Cruise Missile Defense: Issues and Alternatives | Congressional Budget Office
Other words: The USA has virtually no chance to intercept even conventional weapon missiles, much less nuke level missiles. The fallacy by so many is that the USA is impenetrable and well guarded and that is exactly what it is, a fallacy!
Another tidbit that no one likes to face. The money over the years to make the USA strong has been corrupted and wasted away to personal gains by individuals. Tax money and printed relentlessly money has simply lined pockets of the few and they could careless about whether the USA has defenses that work or not. A perfect example of this charade is the F-36, a multiple trillion dollar fallacy that hardly flies, much less defends anything…
It is easy to find even US Gov facts to support the decline in the ability of the USA to stop missiles from taking out command centers all over the mainland USA. This has been ignored, because the money has been directed to all activities of corruption and not protection…
As I have said before. This time if World War breaks out?
The chickens will come home to roost and the hypersonic big Z, is a badass Rooster…
And that is even without nukes at the tip…
WtR