Missile Defense System

Just wondering what people here think of the proposed Missile Defense System. It is something that has been debated for quite some time now. The idea is developing a defense net of anti-balistic missiles to defend the United States from any sort of missile attack.

The reason I bring this up is because it's a rather large issue for Canada. In order for the defense net to properly work, the net would need to also surround Canada. Sounds good, but we essentially have to turn our National Defense over to the U.S to do it.

So....what'cha guys think.....

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NO, the states pretty much owns canada as it is, if we do that they will have so much control over us.

i think its a stupid idea to begin with. why spend like 8 trillion ( i think it was) to protect your contry from missiles, but somone could still walk in witha breifcase nuke and blow shiat up.

This could lead to another arms race. Building better missles then we can shoot down.... Building better things to shoote missles down with... and so on.

the military is developing a missile defince system that uses lasers, well a kind of laser, it uses the energy from the sun, magnifises it and shoots high powered light at the missile; and BANG bye bye missile, it has worked in test, but test could be wrong.

cadet_sergeant wrote: the military is developing a missile defince system that uses lasers, well a kind of laser, it uses the energy from the sun, magnifises it and shoots high powered light at the missile; and BANG bye bye missile, it has worked in test, but test could be wrong.

That is another one of their plans. I personally think this is even worse. The laser would be mounted on a satalitte, which is essentially militarizing space. Not cool.

America and Canada have always had a very large defense partnership....but yeah, sounds good cause I live here, if I were in another country I'd be kinda worried....

As an after thought, I don't know how likely a ICBM attack is nowa days but if we ever got hostile with China or Russia again it would be nice to have.

Clark Kent wrote: KillerCanuk wrote:  ... militarizing space. Not cool. How is militarizing space not cool?  It's uber-cool.

You guys seriously don't think space is already being militarized? What about spy satellites? Why couldn't they have satellites up there capable of lasers, EMPs, or other technology? Just because something isn't common knowledge doesn't mean it isn't there.