Trump and Project 2025 want to resurrect the failed GOP effort to build a magic shield in space that they promise will protect America. It is a cruel joke.
Star Wars redux. More nonsense from the ever expanding malignancy in the White House. What do you think the odds are copresident Musk gets the contracts? He’s already proven he knows how to blow up missiles. His do all the time.
This is an unexplored issue. One of the major obstacles to any space-based defense is the enormous cost of launching all the weapons into orbit. Space X (and Blue Origin) would benefit substantially from Trump’s plan, should it ever advance into production and deployment.
I try not to repeat everything that I have written over the years on the futility of missile defenses. I have often commented on the paradox of defenses against nuclear weapons. If, by some miracle, we could actually build an effective ballistic missile defense, our enemies would deliver them by other means. That is one reason Russia is working on long-range underwater nuclear drones and cruise missiles.
This is an old problem. When Robert Oppenheimer testified before Congress on the destructive power of a nuclear weapon delivered to an American city, he was asked how we could stop it. "With a screwdriver," he answered. We would have to open up every crate delivered to our shores to check for a smuggled bomb. Tom Clancy wrote about exactly this problem in "The Sum of All Fears" -- a nuclear bomb smuggled into the country in a Coke machine and placed at the Super Bowl in Baltimore.
The only way to get rid of the threat of nuclear attack is to eliminate the weapons. Defense is futile. As Dwight D. Eisenhower said long ago: "But let no one think that the expenditure of vast sums for weapons and systems of defense can guarantee absolute safety for the cities and citizens of any nation. The awful arithmetic of the atomic bomb does not permit of any such easy solution."
Star Wars redux. More nonsense from the ever expanding malignancy in the White House. What do you think the odds are copresident Musk gets the contracts? He’s already proven he knows how to blow up missiles. His do all the time.
This is an unexplored issue. One of the major obstacles to any space-based defense is the enormous cost of launching all the weapons into orbit. Space X (and Blue Origin) would benefit substantially from Trump’s plan, should it ever advance into production and deployment.
I try not to repeat everything that I have written over the years on the futility of missile defenses. I have often commented on the paradox of defenses against nuclear weapons. If, by some miracle, we could actually build an effective ballistic missile defense, our enemies would deliver them by other means. That is one reason Russia is working on long-range underwater nuclear drones and cruise missiles.
This is an old problem. When Robert Oppenheimer testified before Congress on the destructive power of a nuclear weapon delivered to an American city, he was asked how we could stop it. "With a screwdriver," he answered. We would have to open up every crate delivered to our shores to check for a smuggled bomb. Tom Clancy wrote about exactly this problem in "The Sum of All Fears" -- a nuclear bomb smuggled into the country in a Coke machine and placed at the Super Bowl in Baltimore.
The only way to get rid of the threat of nuclear attack is to eliminate the weapons. Defense is futile. As Dwight D. Eisenhower said long ago: "But let no one think that the expenditure of vast sums for weapons and systems of defense can guarantee absolute safety for the cities and citizens of any nation. The awful arithmetic of the atomic bomb does not permit of any such easy solution."