Comments on: Missile Defense Shield Expands to Europe

By: Thomas

Thomas — Tue, 02 Sep 2008 22:08:11 +0000

The missile shield wil not be abel to stop a full scale attack from russia. But will be suficent to take out an retaliation attack from russia in a us first strike scenario. Thus making russia a open target for the usa.There fore its higlig likely tath russia wil develop ICBM’s capabel of bypassing the missile shield. This would motivate the usa to futher develope their existing missile shield or their ICBM’s. And so on and so on and so on and so on and so on and so on and so on.and so on and so on and so on.and so on and so on and so on.and so on and so on and so on.and so on and so on and so on.and so on and so on and so on.and so on and so on and so on.and so on and so on and so on.and so on and so on and so on.and so on and so on and so on.and so on and so on and so on.and so on and so on and so on.and so on and so on and so on.and so on and so on and so on.and so on and so on and so on.and so on and so on and so on.and so on and so on and so on.and so on and so on and so on.and so on and so on and so on.and so on and so on and so on. Do you get my point?

By: Ole Peter Galaasen

Ole Peter Galaasen — Sun, 25 Feb 2007 10:54:18 +0000

Meanwhile, Iran seems to have launched a rocket into space:

"The ballistic technology used is believed to be an extension of Iran's long-range Shahab-3 missile, our correspondent says. She says that military experts believe that if Iran has sent a rocket into space it means scientists have mastered the technology needed to cross the atmospheric barrier. In practice, they say, that means there is no technological block to Iran building longer range missiles now, something that will be of great international concern."

Source: BBC

By: Michael Anissimov

Michael Anissimov — Sun, 25 Feb 2007 04:20:25 +0000

Great post!

By: Ole Peter Galaasen

Ole Peter Galaasen — Sat, 24 Feb 2007 19:15:17 +0000

Well, the problem seems to be that when a new defensive technology replaces an older, new offensive weapons appear. The classic arms-race dilemma. Instead of building new defenses global powers should disarm. The problem is that this is wishful thinking.

I think there are many interesting opposing views on this on the comments on many of the blog entries. Most recently Phillip Huggan’s comment on the “The Bulletin of Atomic Scientists Displays Gaps in Nanotechnology Understanding” shows this split in thinking on many questions of existential risks.

The weaponization of space is indeed a huge question, and a missile shield is a move in that direction. As I understand the planned shield in Europe will consist of 10 different missile-silos that are real-time activated by the EWS (early warning radar). Of course delayed by human intervention.

I’m inclined to dismiss the ICBM-threat in the near future. It’s really old technology for old threats.

By: randpost

randpost — Sat, 24 Feb 2007 09:38:57 +0000

No war technology solves anything.. they will just build more weapons with more money. hundreds of billions every year to build these goddam weapons. What a waste.