tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-10820485.post115678902215309644..comments2023-11-03T09:36:22.100-04:00Comments on In From the Cold: The Usual SpinGeorge Smileyhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/07049707648660651119noreply@blogger.comBlogger5125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-10820485.post-1156947592928365242006-08-30T10:19:00.000-04:002006-08-30T10:19:00.000-04:00The link you show is way off in the South Pacific ...The link you show is way off in the South Pacific where we used to test nukes. Even if it was easy to get to, I don't see anything there that concerns me from a security stanpoint.Andyhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/05924320590375035146noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-10820485.post-1156928039212008722006-08-30T04:53:00.000-04:002006-08-30T04:53:00.000-04:00Ummm...as a doc, I don't know a thing about all th...Ummm...as a doc, I don't know a thing about all this, but don't you think that some of the bases have a bit too much information on line? <BR/><A HREF="http://www.smdc.army.mil/KWAJ/RangeInst.html" REL="nofollow">LINK</A> I mean, not only a map and technical information, but a layout of the control room and a list of local bars?<BR/>I haven't seen such laxity since I entered Mountain Home Airbase during an anti nuke demonstration simply because our truck had a sticker on it...Nancy Reyeshttps://www.blogger.com/profile/14910134058143426327noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-10820485.post-1156872223255046602006-08-29T13:23:00.000-04:002006-08-29T13:23:00.000-04:00I understand the purpose of BMD well - I was simpl...I understand the purpose of BMD well - I was simply responding to the North Korea Scenario. The fact is, the North Korean missiles don't have the range to even be shot down by our BMD system. So saying this is somehow affects North Korea is kind of ludicrious. At their current rate, they are a very long ways away from an ICBM capability. Now, if we had a launch and radar site in Japan, it would be completely different story.Andyhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/05924320590375035146noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-10820485.post-1156825582819655022006-08-29T00:26:00.000-04:002006-08-29T00:26:00.000-04:00The purpose behind BMD is to change the calculus o...The purpose behind BMD is to change the calculus of those targeting us.<BR/><BR/>Even at less than perfect, any system must be credited by others as having capability. They must reconize that their targetting strategy is somewhat compromised, perhaps fatally so.<BR/><BR/>For minor players, the loss of even a handful of missles might ruin their whole gambit.<BR/><BR/>America has a global reputation for pulling technological advances 'out of a hat'. Publicly released information is always toned down inregards capabilities.<BR/><BR/>A classic example: the SR-71 Blackbird. A true product of the Skunk Works it was usually touted as a double sonic aircraft. Only after its final retirement Aviation Week publishes its true performance: Absolute top peak... Mach 4.5... Routine high speed Mach 3.+....<BR/><BR/>Another example: the Iowa battleships. Carried in Janes for years as 32 knot ships... Actual wartime peak speed 35 knots combat loaded -- combat conditions. By comparison the Bismark's absolute top speed for trials 28.5 knots... top combat speed 26 knots. This spread is huge for the period.<BR/><BR/>And so it goes with virtually all platforms: ground, naval, air.<BR/><BR/>So when the Sec Def soft pedals some new whiz bang gear costing Manhattan Project amounts no one really believes it doesn't work... except American leftists.<BR/><BR/>After all, when American traitors informed Stalin what was being spent on Manhattan he changed his mind from scepticism to wonderment. Naturally he coded the project 'Enormous'.<BR/><BR/>The Gross War Product dedicated to Manhattan was approximately half of all Soviet War Product. ( The B-29 project was only funded as an adjunct to Manhattan. We spent more building the plane to get the bomb to target as on the bomb itself. The linkage between the two programs was not admitted to for decades. Instead the bomb 'just seemed to fit' the big bomber.)( And barely at that: both were put on a diet.)blerthttps://www.blogger.com/profile/05673566463965274368noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-10820485.post-1156797082098165802006-08-28T16:31:00.000-04:002006-08-28T16:31:00.000-04:00If North Korea actually had an ICBM, then maybe. ...If North Korea actually had an ICBM, then maybe. And the Alaska site could do nothing if the North Koreans took a shot at Hawaii.Andyhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/05924320590375035146noreply@blogger.com