Michaela Dodge, Daily Signal: Sobering Film on Nuclear Attack Shows Need for More Nuclear Defense Spending
The Heritage Foundation’s documentary “33 Minutes” may not be the most cheerful holiday season film, but its warning to the American public about the risk of nuclear attack could not be more timely.
In recent months, North Korea’s missiles have grown in range and capability. The most recent missile it tested, the Hwasong-15, can reach anywhere in the continental United States. This is a deeply alarming development.
When the documentary was first released in 2007, and then updated in 2016, the idea of a North Korean intercontinental ballistic missile being able to reach the entire United States remained a fearful yet still unrealized possibility.
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WNU Editor: The above Heritage Foundation video is trying to make the case for missile defense against rogue nations like North Korea. The problem is that the skeptics do not believe it will work .... If North Korea Launches An ICBM, Then… (October 20, 2017).
It's just an argument for placing Patriot batteries as close as possible to the borders of unfriendly states. Groups like the Heritage foundation argue that we should develop an actual working missile defense system, meanwhile we should place innumerable and ineffective Patriots in places that are likely to cause a military escalation from the other side.
ReplyDeleteHow about we fund and develop a missile defense system that actually works before we start making moves which indicate to our adversaries that we're attempting to break the status quo of MAD?
Placing the "missile defense system" in Romania is what initially triggered the development of hypersonics in Russia a decade ago. So now the arms race is back on, and we're in second-place. Not even regarding the ripple effects that hypersonics are having on naval doctrine regarding the carrier fleets, the placement of some largely useless missile batteries in Romania has made no one safer, soured relations with allies and adversaries alike, and cost us a trillion+ dollars. But at least Raytheon will make their quarterlies now that they don't have to worry about the cold war ending, right?