Quoted from Henry

I'm not talking about giving out our nuclear arming codes or anything like that but I'm sure they talk to family about projects they're working on. It probably goes something like this

1: Hi honey how was your day
2: Ah I'm beat, put in a lot of hours
1: what they have you do today?
2: Working on the new project, should be done in a few months...hopefully
1: So its coming along good huh?
2: yeah we just ran some test and it looks like the new fighter jet will be a success, the newest radar won't even notice it.
1: well that's good, well diner is ready
1 and 2: nom nom nom nom

Quoted from Box A Rox

Maybe it's a good thing that Henry never was in the military.  He'd spill his guts for a chicken sandwich.

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David Trachtenberg called for more diversity in America’s missile defense
systems and claimed that the current U.S. missile defense program “is but a shadow
of the robust program needed to protect the nation.”

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The Obama administration has sustained the Ground-based Midcourse
Defense System in Alaska, and it’s working to add 14 more interceptors there,
even though the performance of those interceptors gets worse and worse each
time they are tested, when it ought to be getting better.

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The problem with U.S. missile defenses is that they lack a workable architecture
and many of the essential elements either don’t work or are missing, as reported by both
the Defense Science Board and last year’s study by the National Academy of Sciences.

Quoted from Henry

Seems Russia is pretty worried about our non-functioning missile defense systems

Quoted from joebxr

No, they are worried/against us putting a missle defense system in a country near them.
http://breakingdefense.com/201.....le-defense-politics/

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But the Russians, who say they think EPAA threatens their ICBMs and thus creates all sorts of arms control problems. say technology — not policy — is the problem.

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Missile Defense in Romania Upsets Russia
The United States and Romania recently began construction on a Romanian-based missile defense system, also known as Aegis Ashore. This critical event is requisite to build a comprehensive multilayered missile defense system. And it’s making Russia nervous.

Moscow (predictably) continues to incorrectly contend that the new system is directed toward it, even though the Administration’s position has been, and continues to be, that the defensive missile shield is for Middle Eastern threats. The Standard Missile-3 (SM-3) system is defensive relying on the SM-3 interceptors’ kinetic power to destroy ballistic threats through mid-air collision.

Russia is expected to permanently deploy their S-400 and S-500 (currently in development) anti-aircraft and missile systems in response to the new Romanian–U.S. missile defense site. The purpose would be to garner political pressure against the U.S.’s decision to build the site with a possible goal of ending its construction.

The new Romanian-based missile defense site is vital for countering potential Middle Eastern ballistic missiles threats. According to the State Department, once it becomes operational in 2015, the U.S. and NATO will gain an added missile interceptor site, and Romania will gain “situational awareness into operations at the ballistic missile defense facility, which includes receiving information on ballistic missiles tracked by the missile defense system and the status of the U.S. missile defense of Europe.” Both parties will also gain added cooperation due to U.S. military, government, and support personnel being based at the Deveselu Air Base in Romania.

The Romanian-based Aegis Ashore system should be applauded. However, the Obama Administration has imposed various limitations on the U.S. ballistic missile defense system. Such drastic reductions may not allow the U.S. to keep pace with the advancing ballistic missile threat.

http://blog.heritage.org/2013/11/04/missile-defense-in-romania-upsets-russia/

Quoted from joebxr

well then this should clarify what I was saying...just didn't get the Romania article like I wanted.

Quoted from BuckStrider

Really?

You mean Russia doesn't want an advanced system that has the potential to neutralize some of it's strategic assets, parked right next door to them?

Why the nerve of those guys!

Quoted from Box A Rox

The real threat of NUKES is from a dirty bomb or a small device detonated in a US city by terrorists.
That threat can't be countered by an anti missile system or by diplomacy.

A determined terrorist (foreign or domestic) could kill or injure a million Americans with such a device.

Quoted from Box A Rox

The real threat of NUKES is from a dirty bomb or a small device detonated in a US city by terrorists.
That threat can't be countered by an anti missile system or by diplomacy.

A determined terrorist (foreign or domestic) could kill or injure a million Americans with such a device.

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OH FOR HEAVEN'S SAKE..............Russia has been able to do the same thing since the 60's!!!!!

With todays satellites.....they would be blown out of the sky before they ever reached the earth....everybody knows that!!!

subs and rockets are old fashion now..........they can make a nuke, put it in a back pack and BANG!!!

the capability was ALWAYS there..........just ask anyone serving in the armed forces....past and present!