Hi Randy, > Not a nuclear explosion, but destroying it would still spread > radioactive waste into the air. Better than nuking a city I guess, > but how much would it disperse and poison the planet?
I don't know. But if it ever came to the point where countries were lobbing nukes at us, it would probably be the preferable lesser evil that we would have to live with. > That only shows that it is well funded, not whether it works. The government doesn't just hand out money blindly for these projects. Years of presentations and analysis are done before a contract is awarded. Something like this is created by Einstein-like geniuses. Some of them who developed the technology actually studied under Einstein. I don't think there are many people out there who can truly dissect the system knowledgeably because the Einsteins of this world are very few and far between. > I read the links you posted, and they describe a laser technology > (which appears to be designed to be mounted on aircraft). > In the larger system of a star wars type defense shield, there are > lots of other components involved. Yes, I know that. I'm hesitant to write in too much detail about the system so just wanted to give you an idea of what I was referring to. I read your links except for the nukewatch which I couldn't bring up. The subject of whistleblowers is another long one entirely. Suffice to say they are quite often mistaken and probably only win about 1% of the cases they bring. They see one small aspect of a much bigger picture and often make a claim of wrongdoing not knowing that at a much higher level something else has been approved or re-written. > In his July 9, 2001, column in The Nation, Christopher Hitchens > quotes Dr. Martin Luther King: "The preparation for nuclear war > is the willingness to commit genocide and suicide at the same time." > Hitchens then observes: "... the delusion of Missile Defense is that > the suicide bit can be removed from the equation." Well, a chance for me to say how much I love Hitchens, even when I don't buy everything he says. But I'm wild about him all the same ;-) He is brilliant and I believe he truly strives for the clear moral ground. > http://www.counterpunch.org/starwars.html > "How the Pentagon Fixed the Star Wars Test" > excerpt (btw identifies Clinton's support and funding for > star wars which revitalized Reagan's foundering dream)excerpt: I see from your link that Clinton apparently resurrrected it in 2000. In the late 70s and into the early 90s much progress was being made on the system. Then Clinton cut off a lot of the development and it went on hold for a number of years. It apparently has only been back up and running for the past two-three years. > Since the 1980s, the U.S. has tried and failed to develop four > different warning and tracking networks. The Sibbers program is > the fifth, and seasoned observers have no doubt it will follow the > fate of its forbears, to be joined by the other components of > ballistic missile defense on a costly junkheap. I don't think this is gospel truth. Maybe there is disinformation put out there, too. > In the meantime however the ABM treaty will probably have been torn up as > other prospects for global disarmament, already dim, turned to > a distant memory. I think most in the U.S. would disarm if everyone else truly wanted to do so. But many other countries keep building their own extensive defensive and offensive systems. Russia and China have a lot of the same missle shield technology that they are testing and it is a joke for them in recent years to have come out opposing the U.S. on it. There have always been brutal people in the world seeking to subjugate, control or eliminate others. While it would be great if our DNA suddenly took a giant leap in evolution and everyone became good and peaceful, when I look around at the reality of what is happening in the middle east, Zimbabwe, North Korea and a few other places, I don't see much evidence of that happening anytime soon. Kakki
