Missile defense systems

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"Anne Scott Tyson, Washington Post

...Friday's test was the 13th of its kind since 1999, part of a missile defense program that has cost approximately $100 billion, according to Pentagon spokesman Bryan Whitman.

The test cost about $120 million. The systems tested were similar to those the U.S. military deploys or will deploy in Japan and Poland, O'Reilly said.

"The geometry of a launch from North Korea to the U.S. is very similar to Kodiak off the coast of California," he said. The radars used to track the missile were the AN/TPY-2 radar located in Juneau, Alaska; a U.S. Navy Aegis BMD ship with SPY-1 radar; the Upgraded Early Warning Radar at Beale Air Force Base, Calif.; and the Sea-Based X-band radar."

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I thought this was a wonderful display of our new multi-billion dollar missile defense shield and a successful test. With more and more nations building rocket based systems, it will just be a matter of time before they try and aim some of those rockets on us or other nations around the world.

Some times being a person who is anti-nuclear, anti-military or anti-DOD does not seem to understand that we live in a world that is dangerous and some nations will take advantage of another nation just because it can with arms.

Also more and more nations are building weapons or missile weapon systems that can put nuclear weapons on top for an even deadlier strike.

The nuclear non-proliferation treaty which many nations are signed up is not going stop a smaller nation or a group of nations from trying to develop weapons that are just above the grade scale of Weapons of Mass Destruction Index. (my own personal index.)

It just above exposing masses of people to anthrax, VX or some other biological weapon but most biological weapons eventually due degrade. Whereas a Nuclear weapon (from my own knowledge) will have an effect for many, many generations to come. Not just decades or a century but even longer.

Now one can try to clean up a weapons area by placing fill or block off an area, create mythos, stories that might teach future generations of what happened.

But will this actually prevent a nation in the present from trying to develop measures or counter measures to this threat that will just kill more people in the future?

Look, this new defensive missile system will just start a new war-on-terror or cold war that lasted nearly fifty years as Russia and China are making their moves to protect themselves against our building of this system.

Was it not Russia who was sending bombers and emissaries to Venezuela or other South American countries that could be used as a future launchingpad against the United States in case we did respond.

How would you like offensive missiles and anti-ballastic defensive missile systems on your door?