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Nuclear missile shields are a provocation, not a prevention

No missile shield system will be able to prevent every missile from reaching its target. The expansion of the shield encourages more nations to develop means of penetrating it. The penetration and detonation of one modern nuclear weapon and its radioactive fallout would be so devastating as to traumatize any nation and its neighbors.

Stop the Missile Shield Now PETER G. COHEN FOR BUZZFLASH/TRUTHOUT, 20 Sept 10, The United States is now installing a missile shield from Northern Poland through the Mediterranean and Black Sea to Asia and Japan. The nations and warships involved are near to or bordering on Russia and China, though the stated intent is to protect our allies from the missiles of Iran and North Korea.
While the ability of this shield to stop incoming missiles is questionable, our nation is making the political arrangements and the installations now.

Because the various versions of the missile shield systems are still in the developmental stage, they will require continuous upgrading and improvements. As a result, we are entering a phase of continuous spending on this Eurasian shield, while here at home we are cutting back on education, libraries, infrastructure, fire stations, etc……

Rather than uniting the world against climate change, and developing alternative energy technologies, our best energies and scarce tax dollars are going into anti-missile systems that create new hostility among nations. This is a sick, perverse situation. It is made even more dangerous by our promotion of nuclear energy and technology, which can easily lead to the creation of more nuclear weapons states and more poisonous radiation that threatens the human gene pool.

No missile shield system will be able to prevent every missile from reaching its target. The expansion of the shield encourages more nations to develop means of penetrating it. The penetration and detonation of one modern nuclear weapon and its radioactive fallout would be so devastating as to traumatize any nation and its neighbors.

The only way to eliminate the essentially suicidal dangers of nuclear war is to destroy all nuclear weapons and the means of creating them.  Stop the Missile Shield Now | BuzzFlash.org

September 20, 2010 - Posted by Christina Macpherson | EUROPE, weapons and war | antinuclear, nuclear, nuclear costs, nuclear secrecy, nuclear spin, nuclear weapons