Russia, China join against US 'star wars'

MENAFN ^ | June 17, 2005

[Centurion2000]

China has repeatedly made clear that it would vastly increase the size of its intercontinental ballistic missile force, building hundreds more nuclear armed ICBMs if necessary to swamp America's new ABM defenses. That could include producing as many as 14 or 15 times as many ICBMs with a range of more than 7,800 miles that are able to threaten the United States, Zhang said.

Currently, China has about 20 liquid-fueled, silo-based ICBMs with single warheads. But if the United States deployed a Ground-Based Missile Defense system with 100 to 250 ground-based interceptor rockets, China would probably be willing to build and deploy anything from 100 to almost 300 more warheads and the missiles necessary to carry them, Zhang said.

Bring it on rice boys. We have this thing called the triad you will not like.

[SIDENET]

I'm not sure how they would factor the fighters into their wargames. They don't have to worry about the F-22s just yet, though.

[FierceDraka]

A single detonation in near Earth space wouldn't affect the satellites in geosynchronous orbit where most of the communications and weather sats are located.

Low-flying GPS and spy sats would be toast, though.

[familyop]

Ping!

Here's one that we missed but should archive.

[nw_arizona_granny]

Thank you for alerting me to this thread, I had missed
reading it before.

It answers questions, that I have not even thought of..yet.

[nw_arizona_granny]

This is an article that you do not want to miss.

[endthematrix]

In May 2002 GW Bush signed an agreement with Putin of Russia to share US ballistic missile defense research and development with Russia including access to US command and control and testing information for theater and strategic ballistic missile defenses of the US.

“Anti-ballistic missile technology is good for all peace-loving nations” - Condie on Ruskie BMD

[Cindy]

Thank you for the ping granny.

[ExSoldier]

One nuclear weapon detonated in near space would therefore melt down the entire electronic communications network of the United States. That could ruin the U.S. economy and utterly disrupt society. True? Or a sort of Y2K scare?

True with a proviso. It is possible to engineer a nuclear weapon that has more EMP than other nuke effects and that is an even worse scenario. So if they go off the shelf it's very bad but has consequences for themselves, too. Or they take the time to do it right and they don't suffer, but we're in deep poo poo. In this situation our nuclear response is very limited unless we launch before they detonate their weapon. At that point, we're down to the subs not in range of the EMP blast.

Our best hope is to respond with neutron bombs if GW has had the guts to pull that design off the shelf when he first was elected. Try to do it now is too late. Back to deep poo poo.

[ExSoldier]

Okay, since I haven't seen a post on this thread in this vein:

It looks like Gog and MaGog are readying themselves to march. Methinks I can hear approaching hoofbeats of the Four Horsemen. Time to start looking UP!

[ExSoldier]

Thanks, granny.

[nw_arizona_granny]

I thought that I remembered that we had hired Russian Scientists, but did not realize it was so many, 25,000.

Safe to say that we do not now have any secrets.The PBS show link is good and the Moscow.US Embassy......and so much
more that I don't have time to read.

http://www.google.com/search?client=googlet&q=Russian%20scientists%20now%20working%20in%20the%20United%20States

[TheBigPicture]

Why are Russia and China opposed to virtually everything we do???