Posted on 11/05/2018 12:17:49 PM PST by ETL
A video has surfaced of Presidential candidate Senator Barack Obama talking on his plans for strategic issues such as nuclear weapons and missile defense.
The full text from the video, as released, reads as follows:
Thanks so much for the Caucus4Priorities, for the great work you've been doing. As president, I will end misguided defense policies and stand with Caucus4Priorities in fighting special interests in Washington.
First, I'll stop spending $9 billion a month in Iraq. I'm the only major candidate who opposed this war from the beginning. And as president I will end it.[i.e. not win it]
Second, I will cut tens of billions of dollars in wasteful spending.
I will cut investments in unproven missile defense systems.
I will not weaponize space.
I will slow our development of future combat systems.
And I will institute an independent "Defense Priorities Board" to ensure that the Quadrennial Defense Review is not used to justify unnecessary spending.
Third, I will set a goal of a world without nuclear weapons. To seek that goal, I will not develop new nuclear weapons; I will seek a global ban on the production of fissile material; and I will negotiate with Russia to take our ICBMs off hair-trigger alert, and to achieve deep cuts in our nuclear arsenals.
You know where I stand. I've fought for open, ethical and accountable government my entire public life. I don't switch positions or make promises that can't be kept. I don't posture on defense policy and I don't take money from federal lobbyists for powerful defense contractors. As president, my sole priority for defense spending will be protecting the American people. Thanks so much.
Article: Obama Pledges Cuts in Missile Defense, Space, and Nuclear Weapons Programs:
http://web.archive.org/web/20090412030633/http://missilethreat.com/archives/id.7086/detail.asp
"MissileThreat.com is a project of The Claremont Institute devoted to understanding and promoting the requirements for the strategic defense of the United States."
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I will cut investments in unproven missile defense systems.
I will not weaponize space.
I will slow our development of future combat systems.
This is all great and a testament to Reagan’s SDI vision, which the left derided as Star Wars nonsense. However, I am concerned that hypersonic missiles, already on the design table, may render this system technologically and economically prohibitive.
with the force of a 10-ton truck
Or hillary falling.
Who would’ve predicted this 70 years ago.
That’s another reason I’m a proponent of exo-atmospheric proximity-engagement weapons in the 1 - 2 megaton range.
Beats the daylights outta missing.....
Wouldn’t it be better to have it explode a short distance from the warhead and pepper it with a thousand 1” steel balls?
Nike-Zeus
yep
You're right. We are much safer without any defense at all. /s
Absolutely WORTHLESS against Russian, Chinese and now North Korean maneuverable ICBM targeting stage and re-entry warheads.
Just looked it up ...
Nike-Zeus B was 400kT warhead. Spartan was 5MT.
We didn’t mess around back then.
We need to stop messing around, now.
yep
There are no “maneuverable” re-entry warheads.
Might not go in the right direction......................
Cue up the old Soutwest Airlines "Wanna get away?" audio.
Sure about that?
“This is all great and a testament to Reagan’s SDI vision, which the left derided as Star Wars nonsense. However, I am concerned that hypersonic missiles, already on the design table, may render this system technologically and economically prohibitive.”
Excellent points. I’m old enough to remember Sen. Kennedy getting nerds from MIT (in his home state of Mass.) to testify to Congress and go to all the Sunday talk shows and say it’s impossible to hit a bullet with another bullet and yada-yada. That’s why most of SDI isn’t designed in the northeast, but down in sweet home Alabama. Huntsville, AL has the highest engineer-per-capita of all American cities.
Hypersonic missiles are a good counter to SDI. However, I believe this test was against a hypersonic missile. Plus, the laser technology is advancing a lot better than I ever thought it would. That’s supposed to be a counter against Russia’s split warhead technique. I’ve read that lasers are not quite up there to make believe X-Wing fighter type stuff, but the duration a laser has to be on a target before the target’s internal systems are inert is much briefer than it used to be. Plus the re-fire of lasers is a lot quicker than it used to be (again, not as fast as sci-fi). Finally, the power source doesn’t have to be as large as it used to be (it’ll now fit on a military truck, where it used to have to be either land based or on a large ship).
And yes, I’m proud. The lasers are being designed in Huntsville, too. :)
Yep! Continuing this program is not in tune with our marxist masters' ideology...
Yep! Continuing this program is not in tune with our marxist masters' ideology...
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