Posted on 11/30/2020 9:50:38 AM PST by TangledUpInBlue
This month, an intercontinental ballistic missile was fired in the general direction of the Hawaiian islands. During its descent a few minutes later, still outside the earthâs atmosphere, it was struck by another missile that destroyed it.
With that detonation, the worldâs tenuous nuclear balance suddenly threatened to come out of kilter. The danger of atom bombs being used again was already increasing. Now itâs grown once more.
The ICBM flying over the Pacific was an American dummy designed to test a new kind of interceptor technology. As it flew, satellites spotted it and alerted an Air Force base in Colorado, which in turn communicated with a Navy destroyer positioned northeast of Hawaii. This ship, the USS John Finn, fired its own missile which, in the jargon, hit and killed the incoming one.
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Where “stability” depended on the threat of mutual, nuclear destruction?
Totally part of AEGIS. AEGIS has undergone many capability upgrades in the several decades it’s been around, the ability to engage and destroy ballistic nuclear warheads is just one of many of those upgrades.
I don’t see this as a bad thing. I get MAD - Mutually Assured Destruction, as a form of restraint. Sorry, I just don’t see the ability of America to intercept nuclear missiles pre-emptively as a bad thing. Not with Korea and Iran and others like them in the world.
If anybody thinks that capability is going to cause us to strike Russia or China first with nuclear missiles, and risk all the ones coming into the US that we can’t or don’t shoot down, they are sadly mistaken. Even all the nuclear fallout from that blowing around the earths surface to fall on us after the fact.
Sorry, I don’t think this capability brings us closer to unlimited thermonuclear war. Not seeing it.
This has been described as ‘hitting a bullet with another bullet’..................
Deep State Media propaganda piece.
So creating a better defensive capability for ourselves is cause to label it as “destabilizing”.
My God how these people hate The United States.
Where “stability” depended on the threat of mutual, nuclear destruction?
Don’t worry, President Harris will kill the program and restore your precious “stability “ of mutually assured destruction.
Well, technically they are right, but they are only looking at one facet of the capability. It’s like saying that the development of a new high power amplifier can cause ear damage.
Yes, but...
Until Biden passes the technology on to the Red Chinese.
Agree. Highly unlikely! More probable the attack missile exploded sufficiently close to enable shrapnel/shock to impact and case the ICBM to fail.
This is only one small piece of the nuclear stalemate. Yes, it does alter the current equation, but keep in mind that within years (if not already) the USSR, China, Israel, Iran, and others will likely have stealth hypersonic cruise missiles capable of carrying nukes.
Theoretically, a ship off any coast (or stealth aircraft) could launch an effective first nuclear strike.
The old detente of mutual destruction still exists for us thanks to our nuclear triad (especially the boomers), but IF a foe believed they could knock down 80% of the incoming and protect their capital cities by a first strike with little to no warning it would change thinking for a nation that would entertain “acceptable losses.”
“With that detonation, the worldâs tenuous nuclear balance suddenly threatened to come out of kilter.”
Only a liberal can think the USA having an upper hand is a bad thing.
“The danger of atom bombs being used again was already increasing. Now itâs grown once more.”
Only an idiot liberal can think our ability to stop the use of nuclear weapons increases their chance of use.
Don’t worry, President Harris will kill the program and restore your precious “stability “ of mutually assured destruction.
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Yes, but only after transferring the relevant technology and intellectual property to the ChiComs.
/sadly, probably not sarcasm
China, North Korea and Iran have different attitudes than Russia about their populations and nuclear “stability”. But don’t worry, Plugs and Son will sell off the tech and level that playing field again.
It is wild stuff and I am totally onboard with developing this and other similar technologies...
As far as upsetting the nuclear balance in the world, I think that is far from true...
In this case a single ICBM was shot down, what if there was 1000 ICBMs all coming our direction, what if the launch happened from a nuclear capable submarine 100 miles from the coast....
My point, shooting down a single ICBM is fantastic but could it really stop a massive 1st strike from an enemy
It’s NOT FAIR that we are climbing out of the MAD crab bucket!! China was supposed to do it first!
STAR WARS HAS ARRIVED! BDT
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