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Protecting the U.S. would require novel solutions, like orbiting missile interceptors that can destroy incoming attacks.

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Such defense systems are extremely costly” with “their effectiveness often being questionable,” one expert said.

An atomic test that took place on March 23, 1955, at the Nevada Test Site. In the 1950s, nuclear weapons were regularly detonated aboveground to see what the effects would be on people and buildings ...