President Reagans Strategic Defense Initiative: In Relation With the Soviet :: Nuclear War

"For the first clip humankind has the power to destroy itself." 1 Thenuclear age has channelized the world, for the effectual and the bad. Though the bad, isfar greater than the good. We sometimes ponder to our selves, "what would happenif we were coerce in to a nuclear war ware their are instantaneously winners." The mode lifewould be after such an incident would change life as we know it drastically. Inthe event of a nuclear war with the Soviets we would have lost approximately onehundred and cardinal million Ameri crapper lives. 2 The planet would be destroyed tothe effect that even thoughts who survived would have no place to live. NoGovernment, or persons, can win a nuclear war and as long as their are nuclearprojectiles of mass destruction there will of all time be the risk of someone using them.Once the first missile is unleashed their is no telling were it would stop.Our dealings with the former Soviet Union was found on the French word,detente, that the Russians had defined as a freedom to obtain subversion,aggression and expansionism any were in the world. 3 The soviets have been, upuntil 1990, the U.Ss defacto enemies. on that point goal was too destroy democracy andimposing communism. 4 This is way it was though to be inevitable for a nuclearwar with the soviets. "The hallucination of a non nuclear world is a great and notableone, how ever for the foreseeable future it is unattainable in actuality andunwise in theory." 5 Because of this harsh the United States is left with aproblem How can we beetroot this so called inevitability? The answer is spacebased defense weapons. The program, brought forward by the Reagan administration,was called the strategical defense Initiative, and some called "Star Wars." 6Reagans strategic defense initiative, created in the 80s, was an acceptablefor the U.S it worked to convince the Soviets not only to crucify there nucleararsenal but to halt any notice for a nuclear a ttack by the Soviets." What is the worth of our society as we know it? Right now we hold anentire population hostage." 7 Ever since the 1960s our main defense against thesoviets has been the MAD policy, Mutual Assured Destruction. twain the UnitedStates and the Soviet Union had enough nuclear weapons at their presidential term so thatif one fired at the some other the one that was macrocosm fired at would fire itsmissiles at the other too. In other words, they would share the same fate.