<div style='font: 12pt ; text-align: left; '>The defense system would work at shooting down ICBM's and such. This would help defend during a possible nuclear war. There are several major problems with it though:
1) The Russians have already rendered the one which is currently being worked on by nations obsolete. They have developed highly maneuverable ICBM's which can out-maneuver that system, they have also experimented wsith a dummy system which would launch thousands of dummies (I suppose these would be like balloons which inflate) to fool the defense system. Russia currently has the power to destroy just about anyone they want in the case of Nuclear war. The US has the same capabilities.
2) This is a far more serious problem. Certain nations such as China, Europe, India, Pakistan, and others, to combat such a defense system would simply build thousands more ICBM's, enough that if fired they would overwhelm any currently conceivable defense system. Russia and the US currently has thousands of ICBM's, so either one of them can do that now. The other nations I mentioned, China in particular, have ICBM's, but not a lot, they have them for the sole purpose of retaliation. The reason why this is a problem, is if you have thousands of ICBM's being destroyed, even though they won't be detonating, their radioactive material will still be extremely dangerous when it comees falling down. The major concern is that these defense systems will lead to a major increase in the amount of ICBM's present, similar to what happened during the cold war. This could have very catastrophic consequences.
The alternative would be to continue to work on treaties which would actually lower the nuclear capabilties of all nations in the world. Or to make Nuclear weapons Internationally illegal in a similar way that chemical and bio weapons are illegal.</div>
1) The Russians have already rendered the one which is currently being worked on by nations obsolete. They have developed highly maneuverable ICBM's which can out-maneuver that system, they have also experimented wsith a dummy system which would launch thousands of dummies (I suppose these would be like balloons which inflate) to fool the defense system. Russia currently has the power to destroy just about anyone they want in the case of Nuclear war. The US has the same capabilities.
2) This is a far more serious problem. Certain nations such as China, Europe, India, Pakistan, and others, to combat such a defense system would simply build thousands more ICBM's, enough that if fired they would overwhelm any currently conceivable defense system. Russia and the US currently has thousands of ICBM's, so either one of them can do that now. The other nations I mentioned, China in particular, have ICBM's, but not a lot, they have them for the sole purpose of retaliation. The reason why this is a problem, is if you have thousands of ICBM's being destroyed, even though they won't be detonating, their radioactive material will still be extremely dangerous when it comees falling down. The major concern is that these defense systems will lead to a major increase in the amount of ICBM's present, similar to what happened during the cold war. This could have very catastrophic consequences.
The alternative would be to continue to work on treaties which would actually lower the nuclear capabilties of all nations in the world. Or to make Nuclear weapons Internationally illegal in a similar way that chemical and bio weapons are illegal.</div>
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