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Small forcing makes any cardinal superdestructible

Small forcing makes any cardinal superdestructible

Small forcing always ruins the indestructibility of an indestructible supercompact cardinal. In fact, after small forcing, any cardinal $\kappa$ becomes superdestructible---any further ${<}\kappa$-closed forcing which adds a subset to $\kappa$ will destroy the measurability, even the weak compactness, of $\kappa$. Nevertheless, after small forcing indestructible cardinals remain resurrectible, but never …