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A year-long U.S.-Russian effort to find ways to cooperate on European missile defense ground to a halt in November and December, just months before the NATO summit in Chicago this May and in the midst of presidential election seasons in both countries.
Moscow is now threatening to boycott the summit and take other retaliatory measures, such as deploying short-range missiles in Kaliningrad to destroy NATO interceptors and withdrawing from the New Strategic Arms Reduction Treaty (New START).
In reply, U.S. and NATO officials said that their plans to deploy a missile interceptor system in E
Originally posted by Fitch303
What's to talk about? Russia to this very day targets the west with their icbm's and that's why we are building the shield. Why on earth would we give them any specifics regarding those systems that have cost billions to develop. Why cant Russia design their own shield?edit on 8-2-2012 by Fitch303 because: (no reason given)
Originally posted by Fitch303
Why cant Russia design their own shield?
Originally posted by Iamschist
All these threats are getting on my last nerve. Let Russia do what it wants. I am in favor of just walking away. Quit with the pissing contests already! We have spent decades trying to disarm nuclear weapons, and now that is all anyone talks about. The fallout, pun intended, from nuclear weapons is horrendous, anyone with any brains can see this is a no win scenario. Even getting rid of these weapons is a huge mess. Basically you are poisoning yourself and your own people. Disgusting!
Is fallout really that bad? Nagasaki and Hiroshima have been rebuilt and people still live there. Most if not all nuclear weapons are designed to (air burst) a few thousand feet above the surface for maximum effect which significantly minimizes and fallout.