Jones Henry
Banned Idiot
What do you think future weapons and weapon systems will be like?
One thing i've been thinking about a lot lately is nanomanufacturing. It's all sicifi for now, but so was an atom bomb back in the 1920's!
The idea basicly is to make things atom by atom. For instanche atom bombs today are about the size of a microwave, maybe even bigger. That short of a bomb is difficult to smugle even to the US, wich is today a true heaven for illegal immigration.
But consider an atom or antimatter bomb the size of an aple. It's difficult to spot even with sensitive scanners, and surdenly no missile shield can block it. So while america spends billions and yeat again billions in to projecting itself from possible Chinese missiles, a Chinese general can place thousands of bombs in the US, because there so cheap to manufacture. In the mean time he can play a litle "catch up" game with the us, finally driving the country bankrupt while desparetly trying to make itself invurnable. And then if the US were ever in it's desparecy to threat China with first strike...
The orher thing i've been thinking is a super sonic fihgter that could operate in space, and shoot down for instanche enemy satelites or place new once. Basicly i think future technology favors smaller countries, while placing obies strain on the us, whos desperately still trying to keep a hold ot it's global "hegemony" Then theres of course EMP weapons. If China would pocess EMP missiles it could easily make for instanche an american aircraft carrier unoperational. And then theres of course "mininukes" and so on. One thing a new armsrace always could cause is a world war 3, where the US would launch a desparate first strike to both China and Russia to stop them from developing new deadly weapons. But by then America would allready be a targer to almost every terrorist group imaginable. The truth is, that thanks to the globalism(the free movement of people, money and ideas)and future nanomanufacturing it would almost be imposible to make yourself invurnable from these short of attacks. So a new world war would be true armageddon to the entire planet
Then i've been thinking about nanoweapons, althow i'm not quite sure how they operate.
Basicly a missile shield wouldnt be quit so protective against these short of weapons. But China and Russia should ofcouse also consentrate on new deadly missiles. At the same america should be pressured to join some short of a new ABM treaty banning all weapons in space and possibile missile shields all together. But if america refuses to expect MAD(Mutuallu assured destruction)then China and Russia should focus on new deadly weapons development. It would basicly the US:s own fault. Gorbatsev allready offered Reagan a similar treaty wich was quite good, and the Soviets obiesly under the rule of Gorbatsev were not anymore threatening the free world, but Reagan still refused. I think force only works with America. We have seen that clearly with the Cuban missile crisis, Vietnam and now Iraq. America will not setle for anything unless it's basicly forced down it's throat, so Russia and China should consentrate on making new deadly weapons because America isnt anymore going to come to it's senses. Smaller, more faster and deadly multiwarhead missiles. possibly even stealth once. Alltogether i think america would have to give up it's missile shiled project, since it probobly wouldnt work against economic and military super powers like China and Russia, and the so called "rogue states" would even bother to use one, since there are a lot cheaper ways of delevering WMD:s to americas own soil
One thing i've been thinking about a lot lately is nanomanufacturing. It's all sicifi for now, but so was an atom bomb back in the 1920's!
The idea basicly is to make things atom by atom. For instanche atom bombs today are about the size of a microwave, maybe even bigger. That short of a bomb is difficult to smugle even to the US, wich is today a true heaven for illegal immigration.
But consider an atom or antimatter bomb the size of an aple. It's difficult to spot even with sensitive scanners, and surdenly no missile shield can block it. So while america spends billions and yeat again billions in to projecting itself from possible Chinese missiles, a Chinese general can place thousands of bombs in the US, because there so cheap to manufacture. In the mean time he can play a litle "catch up" game with the us, finally driving the country bankrupt while desparetly trying to make itself invurnable. And then if the US were ever in it's desparecy to threat China with first strike...
The orher thing i've been thinking is a super sonic fihgter that could operate in space, and shoot down for instanche enemy satelites or place new once. Basicly i think future technology favors smaller countries, while placing obies strain on the us, whos desperately still trying to keep a hold ot it's global "hegemony" Then theres of course EMP weapons. If China would pocess EMP missiles it could easily make for instanche an american aircraft carrier unoperational. And then theres of course "mininukes" and so on. One thing a new armsrace always could cause is a world war 3, where the US would launch a desparate first strike to both China and Russia to stop them from developing new deadly weapons. But by then America would allready be a targer to almost every terrorist group imaginable. The truth is, that thanks to the globalism(the free movement of people, money and ideas)and future nanomanufacturing it would almost be imposible to make yourself invurnable from these short of attacks. So a new world war would be true armageddon to the entire planet
Then i've been thinking about nanoweapons, althow i'm not quite sure how they operate.
Basicly a missile shield wouldnt be quit so protective against these short of weapons. But China and Russia should ofcouse also consentrate on new deadly missiles. At the same america should be pressured to join some short of a new ABM treaty banning all weapons in space and possibile missile shields all together. But if america refuses to expect MAD(Mutuallu assured destruction)then China and Russia should focus on new deadly weapons development. It would basicly the US:s own fault. Gorbatsev allready offered Reagan a similar treaty wich was quite good, and the Soviets obiesly under the rule of Gorbatsev were not anymore threatening the free world, but Reagan still refused. I think force only works with America. We have seen that clearly with the Cuban missile crisis, Vietnam and now Iraq. America will not setle for anything unless it's basicly forced down it's throat, so Russia and China should consentrate on making new deadly weapons because America isnt anymore going to come to it's senses. Smaller, more faster and deadly multiwarhead missiles. possibly even stealth once. Alltogether i think america would have to give up it's missile shiled project, since it probobly wouldnt work against economic and military super powers like China and Russia, and the so called "rogue states" would even bother to use one, since there are a lot cheaper ways of delevering WMD:s to americas own soil
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