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To put it bluntly you don't know what you are talking about. Reagan did not define any system. Unlike the leftists he did not believe that the president automatically became the fount of all knowledge. He started a program that looked at many approaches to missile defense. The first successful defense was actually a missile that could hit an incoming missile. There is currently a system that uses lasers to destroy the missile early after lift off. That system is apparently being axed by O'bama rex.
The initial focus of the strategic defense initiative was a nuclear explosion-powered X-ray laser designed at Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory by a scientist named Peter L. Hagelstein who worked with a team called 'O Group', doing much of the work in the late 1970s and early 1980s. O Group was headed by physicist Lowell Wood, a protégé and friend of Edward Teller, the "father of the hydrogen bomb".
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The concept for the space-based portion was to use lasers to shoot down incoming Soviet intercontinental ballistic missiles (ICBMs) armed with nuclear warheads. Nobel Prize-winning physicist Hans Bethe went to Livermore in February 1983 for a two-day briefing on the X-ray laser, and "Although impressed with its scientific novelty, Bethe went away highly skeptical it would contribute anything to the nation's defense."[3]
Libbies oppose everything defense. It is sad ignorance and foolish motives.
You have to admit that we throw away a lot of money buying trash that don't work.
I was a radio repairman while I was in the service and the special forces got these new radios that wouldn't talk to any of the radios in the inventory. Just to each other. And they had to be standing next to each other for that to work. That was a huge waste of money.
Walkie-Talkies from Western Auto!!!!!!!:laugh::laugh::laugh:
Either way we spent a ton of cash on SDI and it never amounted to anything...
He's not talking about unilateral US disarmament. He's talking about a reduction of nuclear weapons worldwide.
Me no hate defense... Then again I'm not a libbie so I don't think you were talking to me.
You have to admit that we throw away a lot of money buying trash that don't work. How about the new presidential helicopters for example. Now those were a real waste of money.
I was a radio repairman while I was in the service and the special forces got these new radios that wouldn't talk to any of the radios in the inventory. Just to each other. And they had to be standing next to each other for that to work. That was a huge waste of money.
Reagan did some good defense investments but SDI was not one of them. It was as bad as this Bush missile shield they wanted to build in Europe. What we have is better than what they wanted to build.
Anything other than the break up of the Soviet Union and the falling of the Iron Curtain.
What other country are you expecting to participate in the disarmament?
China?
Russia?
Pakistan?
India?
Are you expecting North Korea to give up it's nuclear weapons progam?
Iran?
In hind site we know that we didn't need to spend nearly as much as we did since the soviets didn't have the stock pile we believed and their weapons were more harmful to themselves than to us. They cut some many corners until their stuff was trashy and dangerous.
So hind site really says Carter was more right than Reagan and I don't believe it was our defense posture that tore down the iron curtain. It was the collapse of their economy.
I don't want to speak for JC but I don't think any country will actually disarm. The point is that we asked. That was the same thing Reagan did. He asked.
Obama is doing it from a position of weakness. When one annouces that one is going to disarm oneself before engaging in the negotiations the other side has no reason to negotiate. Obama is threatening them by rolling over and begging.
I know we don't consider Wiki as gospel but I think it will do here...
Remember SDI... Strategic Defense Initiative...
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Strategic_Defense_Initiative
Either way we spent a ton of cash on SDI and it never amounted to anything...
So hind site really says Carter was more right than Reagan and I don't believe it was our defense posture that tore down the iron curtain. It was the collapse of their economy.
Originally Posted by LeBuick
Reagan's defense shield was a huge laser in a plane that was supposed to destroy the war head but not the missile. Remember the phrase star wars? So yes he spent a ton of money on missile defense but his ideas and all that money never amounted to missile defense.
No, we have adequate defense systems in AK and have had them from the times of the soviet threat. Not only the allusion islands but the northern parts of AK are more protected than anyone realizes. If Gov Palin should know that and not look so naive calling for more missiles like she is. What she is doing is confirming what the rest of us know, she doesn't have a clue.
What does she want, the US to make public our defenses just to shut her up?
Listen, currently, this day, no missile in existance can penetrate onto our land unless we allow it. And the North American Defense shield also protects our bothers in Canada. All this talk about Obama is making us vulnerable is just right wing fear mongering. There is yet to be a missile that can penetrate our air space and that one NK built doesn't come close. We say it via satellite from the time it was launched. We had absolutely nothing to fear.
The missile system currently deployed in Alaska is the outgrowth of President Reagan’s Strategic Defense Initiative. This system , or a similar system, is also deployed on some surface ships and was the same as that Bush wanted to deploy in Eastern Europe.
Once again...both Reagan and Obama say, "peace."
Reagan believed in "peace through strength."
The jury's not quite in...but apparently Obama has reincarnated the Carter doctrine: "peace through appeasement."
BTW...only one works. Just thought you'd like to know.