Crazy places have nukes today and more will be joining them in the future, so while an American defense against being totally destroyed should have been focus number one for researchers since the 1950s, now it is a very basic area of national defense for many countries.
America can’t keep depending on wishful thinking when the threat is total annihilation, think of the insanity of reality avoidance we have been living under all during the nuclear age, hope isn’t protection, we need defenses.
Gorbachev tried to hoodwink Reagan into giving up Star Wars and had the leftists support.
They said it wouldn’t work so why were the Soviets so afraid of it?