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Edward Markey: “Our own government says that when we attempt to shoot down…”

Featuring: Edward Markey, Democratic | U.S. Senate Massachusetts

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Published | Video Starts at 10:04

And that's what the movie A House of Dynamite was all about. It was just showing that this whole thing is a lie. It's a fiction. And Our own government says that when we attempt to shoot down incoming missiles, we're only effective 50% of the time. You cannot have 50% of nuclear bombs hitting American cities. You can't have 40 or 30 or 10%. If only 10 or 15 of these bombs get through, that's 100 to 150 million people in the United States. (10:04–10:12)

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Asserts that the U.S. government claims a 50% effectiveness rate in intercepting incoming missiles.

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