Sharing Our Missile Defense Technology with Russia

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Preident Clinton was in Germany today. One of his latest great ideas is that the United States should share our missile defense technology with Russia. If you are trying to devise ways of penetrating another nations misile defense system, the first things you want to know is the details of the technology their defensesystem is using.
Has Russia been making campaign contributions to the Democratic National Committee?
 
That's a complex little idea. Russia isn't the threat this scaled-down defense system is designed to counter. It's actualy designed to counter a hand-full of ICMBs thrown by some backward loons like North Korea, Libya, or a very angry Greater Serbia.
The main road block to this systems' inception is Russia's panick over possibly loosing it's last trump card against American expansion(an imagined problem on Russia's part)
So should we give the Russians a duplicate system? It calm them down and lead to a joint SDI/Aerospace aliance.
But then again, the Russians could turn around and sell the system to Iraq or Libya.


I don't know. I'd have to have acces to the intel the Pustual/President has.

But I sure would like a solid aliance with Putin's Russia.
 
*sigh* Is it November yet?
(I was going to rant about what an a$$hole WJC is, but why waste my time)

[This message has been edited by RAE (edited June 02, 2000).]
 
Actually President Ronald Reagan raised the idea of sharing missle defense technology. So this is just another example of Klinton plagerism.

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If you think about it, it is a powerful lever in the hands of a president who is willing to use it. If the US installed, *and controlled*, the ABM systems over Russia, we could turn the system off every time they misbehaved. When you're used to having and umbrella, you'll feel quite naked when it's taken away.

Of course, in the hands of WJC or Alphagore, we'd somehow end up supplying them to the Hezbollah or something.
 
To maintain equilibrium Churchill sent the then USSR two Rolls Royce jet engines. Upon receiving them Stalin commented: "What kind of idiot shares his best technology?" Putin is an ardent nationalist. As much as the press may paint him as a moderate he's not. He's on a mission to restore greater Russia. And if that means selling US technology to the ChiCom or North Korea he'll do it in a second.

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So many pistols, so little money.
 
Actually the official word from the news agencies is that we are sharing missile launch detection technology with them. It seems that currently the Russians have some launch blind spots because a few of their satellites have stopped working. Now they'll be able to detect launches against them that otherwise would have been successful.

I hope this is really the truth.
 
Actually I think ANYTHING that reduces the chances of a nuclear exchange is a GOOD THING!

I spent 11 years in the USMC fighting to keep this country free and SAFE from all threats.

If we and Russia (and China now that you mention it) could design a joint defense policy it would reduce the likelyhood of TEOTWAWKI

That better dead then red **** is outdated and STUPID.
 
Remember, people, that there IS NO missile defense system, nor is there likely to be one in the near future. The technology just isn't there.

db
 
I could swallow having a joint U.S./Russian system, given a lot of controls. I couldn't stand for a system in which red China is covered, because I believe they are quite capable of using tactical and/or strategic nukes for offensive purposes. At least with the Russians (post-Stalin, anyway) I get the sense that they aren't willing to initiate the exchange.

I'd like to have the U.S. covered by an ABM system against rogue nations like red China, North Korea, Iraq, and Iran. The question is whether our "leaders" can put a system in place without screwing up our relations with Russia.
 
Dave B:

I think the technology is there for a limited missile system capble of defeating an attack from say China or North Korea provided the Clinton administration stops claiming that the old ABM treaty with the Soviet Union is still in force. This only allows a poorly configured syatem.
A system to be used against the Russian ICBM force is a more difficult question.
Note that the Russians have an operational missile defense system around Moscow.
 
The tech is there. The anti-defense grid talk spouted by the major media talking heads is centered around such a systems inability to stop several dozen warheads at once or deal with warheads that deploy decoys.
1)The rogue nations do not have several dozen warheads.
2)The rogue nations do not have warheads that deploy decoys.
3)Such a defense system can be upgraded as threats evolve and new tech becomes availiable.
 
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