Estimates range from 10% (mid-70’s) to 90% (now) failure of Soviet missiles on launch
so that is a whole heck of a lot less missiles.

I remember the ‘experts’ arguing that no computer could ever have
enough speed to handle the calculations involved.
Which is now demonstrably false.

And the newest anti-missile systems are a rousing success.
We can now ‘hit a bullet with a bullet’

“Finally, I hope an anthropological perspective of the issues can remind ourselves and the rest of the public what is at risk in a nuclear exchange—for human existence is far more colorful, complex, and worthwhile than any two-dimensional crayon drawing can suggest. *

*The Peace Shield ad, run on Washington, DC, television stations in early November 1985 portrays the complexities of the scientific and policy issues involved in the Strategic Defense Initiative (Star Wars) in a 30-second animated child’s drawing. The commercial is summarized in Ellen Goodman’s column (The Crayola Defense, Boston Globe, November 5, 1985), described by Lloyd Grove (The Star Wars Soft Sell, Washington Post, November 4, 1985) and by John J. Fialka (Combative General is a political Godfather of Star Wars Plan,Wall Street Journal, November 12, 1985), and parodied by Herblock (Washington Post, November 8, 1985) and Gary Trudeau (Doonesbury, November 22, 1985)”

http://cerebraloddjobs.edublogs.org/2006/01/12/anthropology-of-human-survival/

In comic book format, maybe they’d actually understand it…