There are other, more subtle reasons for pursuing missile defence. First, [George W. Bush]'s promise of invulnerability will give fearful people the illusion of safety and buttress his waning domestic popularity. Second, missile defence research will surely result in the development of offensive weapons and technology that will likely be used as after-the-fact justification. Third, the missile defence program ensures that the very influential military-industrial complex will receive even more obscene amounts of money. Finally, land-based missile defence systems are a stepping stone for space-based systems. Many missile defence supporters make no pretense about this. Only space-based interceptors could have any possibility of achieving the ultimate goal of shielding against Chinese and R...
... and failing states, the threat posed by weapons of mass destruction (WMD), and the war on terror. ...
... pertaining to the diffusion of nuclear weapons technology for example, an issue area of major pol...
... more tempted to use its offensive nuclear weapons. Canada thus should not lend any support to such d...
... Inc., an advanced weapons and space systems manufacturer, for. approxima...
... to reduce and eventually eliminate all weapons of mass destruction. . Over his last two decades i...
The Doomsday Clock signalled to the world just how close we were coming to nuclear war and has been changed by the Atomic Scientists 18 times in its history. Since those early days, and especially since the Berlin Wall came down in 1990, the Bulletin has broadened its focus for the Doomsday Clock to also take into account challenges such as global warming and other growing vulnerabilities.
... Project that created the first nuclear weapons and feared that the nuclear age would result in wo...
... about the role and utility of nuclear weapons--save the issue of proliferation--have fallen off ...
... perhaps inoculation against biological weapons. These will all be needed very quickly. Advance pr...
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