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Current Events => General Discussion => Topic started by: megimoo on April 17, 2008, 07:47:13 PM

Title: Doubts voiced about U.S. anti-missile plan
Post by: megimoo on April 17, 2008, 07:47:13 PM

"How do they feel about the dead satellite space shot ??"
 
Washington - A group of prominent scientists who have been critical of missile defense plans told lawmakers Wednesday that a system being built by the United States cannot protect the country.
 They also questioned whether the Defense Department has misled the public and European allies about the system's capabilities.
 ''The program offers no prospect of defending the United States from a real-world missile attack and undermines efforts to eliminate the real nuclear threats to the United States,'' Lisbeth Gronlund, a senior scientist at the Union of Concerned Scientists,

About the union :
In 1997, the UCS circulated a petition entitled "A Call to Action". The petition called for the ratification of the Kyoto Protocol, and was signed by 110 Nobel Prize laureates, including 104 Nobel Prize-winning scientists.

In February 2004, the Union received press attention for its publication "Scientific Integrity in Policymaking". The report criticized the administration of U.S. President George W. Bush for "politicizing" science.

"Seems to me that they engage in a tad of "politicizing" themselves !"


http://www.usatoday.com/news/washington/2008-04-16-missile-plan_N.htm

Title: Re: Doubts voiced about U.S. anti-missile plan
Post by: Wretched Excess on April 17, 2008, 08:00:46 PM

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What We Do
The Union of Concerned Scientists is the leading science-based nonprofit working for a healthy environment and a safer world. UCS combines independent scientific research and citizen action to develop innovative, practical solutions and to secure responsible changes in government policy, corporate practices, and consumer choices.

http://www.ucsusa.org/ucs/about/

politicization of science, indeed. :whatever:

Title: Re: Doubts voiced about U.S. anti-missile plan
Post by: Chris_ on April 18, 2008, 01:58:01 PM

Since most of the details of the system are "code word" classified, how the hell do these drones know whether it will work or not??

doc

Title: Re: Doubts voiced about U.S. anti-missile plan
Post by: SSG Snuggle Bunny on April 18, 2008, 02:05:47 PM

Meanwhile, the leaders of NATO who are responsible for the lives of over 300 million constituents have just embraced the US missile defense system after having just learned they are within range of Iranian missiles on the rational presumption that such systems could make offensive Iranian nuclear capabilities uncertain in efficacy and cost prohibitive in acquisition.

<--- theory  practice --->