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| Missile Defense System - Buren for the United StatesMissile Defense System - Buren for the United StatesThis is well argued. Its weakest point is the lack of dealing with opposing
arguments. The National Missile Defense System - Burden for the United States Anuar Orumbayev English I [ENG 121] Instructor: Kenneth Ziegler Arapahoe Community College Feb.2.2004 The National Missile Defense System - Burden for the United States Since the beginning of the nuclear age, both the United States and the Soviet The Cold War was still fully active during the presidency of Ronald These recent attacks have increased the US awareness of a growing
threat. Proponents state that given the growing ballistic missile industry
in other countries, the US has to prepare itself for attacks of any kind. Currently, chances of the United States being attacked by ballistic
missiles of long range are very low, or do not exist at all. Even though
the United States government suspects that countries like North Korea, Even though the US government is insisting on building this missile defense system, the Pentagon hasn’t thoroughly tested the system. Seven tests of hitting an airborne target were conducted. The Pentagon states that all seven were successful, and that the US government is ready to start this project. A group of scientists from Institute of technology explained how the tests were conducted, and how they were in fact unsuccessful. They clearly state that in the first two tests, the system failed to distinguish between the target warhead and a set of decoys that were shaped like warheads. Modern nuclear missiles all launch multiple decoys along with one or more warheads. After this failure in the first two tests, the multiple realistically-shaped decoys were replaced by a single large balloon-shaped decoy in all of the later tests. In order to make the tests appear successful, the unidentifiable decoys were removed from the test field. Another controversial issue about the National Missile Defense system is the cost to the American public. This will be the single most expensive project in the history of the United States, estimated to be between sixty billion and one hundred billion dollars. Assuming that some parts of nuclear warheads periodically need to be replaced due to radioactive decay, the price might go up to half a trillion dollars, depending on the exact system that the US government develops. This amount will mean more taxes from every citizen, and increase of national debt. Instead of spending this amount of money building the National Missile Defense system, the US government would be better served paying off the national debt to its citizens. The recent attacks of September 11 weren’t nuclear; they were realized by using civilian airplanes as a weapon. These attacks claimed more than three thousands lives. Considering the unavailability of nuclear weapons at present, these kinds of attacks are more likely to occur than nuclear attacks. So instead of focusing on nuclear attacks, the US government should spend the money on security at airports, malls, or other public places. The only state that has the power to launch weapons of mass destruction against the United States is Russia. Although the Russia of today is not the same as the Soviet Union of 1984, it is still very powerful in the field of nuclear weapons. Some think that if US starts developing the Missile Defense System it might encourage Russia to upgrade its nuclear arsenal, but it won't happen for one reason: its too expensive for Russia's current budget. Cold War brought Soviets bankruptcy and collapse, and neither Russia nor any former Soviet state would like to repeat this experiment again. Right now the building of a National Missile Defense system should not
be among priorities for the government. The building of such a system
however would not make the United States more secure, because instead of
launching ballistic missiles terrorists target places of high civilian
concentration, besides this Missile Defense project is too expensive for |
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