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A city block demolished or abandoned is pretty close next to each other on the Operational and Out of Service scale when it comes to economic input.

Also, consider VSL (value of a statistical life) which is around 5-10 million in most of developed world.

So each missile costs ~2 human lifetimes to produce? But has the potential to save hundreds if used precisely

In this context the purpose of VSL is generally to consider how much can we spend to thwart attacks that will likely kill at least one person.

Although thinking about how many humans a kill machine is worth is one hell of an idea to ponder