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Best Missile Defense: MAD or Star Wars?
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[QUOTE]Originally posted by Omega: [QB] [i]We tried shooting down one missile with another. The test failed -- the rocket carrying the interceptor missile failed to deploy properly, and POOF! we're out 100 million.[/i] You base the merit of an entire project on a single bug in a single missile? If reproducing your results may be a problem, conduct the experiment only once? [i]Couple that with Bush's willingness for a unilateral reduction in our nuclear arsenal, and what we've got is ... a) a missile defense that doesn't work b) no threat (from us) of MAD.[/i] a) You base this on nothing. b) MAD still works as a deterrent. Who cares about the fact that we can only blow up the world four times now? [i]Plus, when 50 Nobel Peace Prize winners (21 of those in Physics, if I hadn't mentioned that before) say Star Wars is a bad idea that can't work, I'd tend to listen to them.[/i] Appeal to authority is a classic logical falicy. [i]Gee, let's see, we've been throwing money at Star Wars off and on since 1983 ... I'd say it's time to give it up.[/i] We've been pouring money into inner cities since the sixties, with no results. Should we give that up, too? Perhaps we should just fix it. [i]And the Nobel Scientists didn't say it was "impossible." Just a very (very, very, very) bad idea, because then the Russians and the Chinese would begin an arms race to make enough nukes to overwhelm the system.[/i] So let me get this straight. Your [i]physics[/i] professors are commenting on world [i]politics[/i]? [i]Balance of power is the key word here.[/i] That's three words. It's also a bad thing. We don't WANT a balance, because that can start a war. Remember "The Sum of All Fears"? We need to be as close to invunerable as possible. Then no one will touch us, because our chances of survival would be higher, and thus their chances of destruction increase. As it stands, it's at least theoretically possible for Russia or China to take out all our nukes with one salvo. And before you ask, we couldn't return fire before they impacted. You can thank Bill for that. [/QB][/QUOTE]
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