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Title: NATIONAL MISSILE DEFENSE PROGRAM a.k.a. Star Wars Marsha Davis CS 403 Authoring techniques in Comput


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NATIONAL MISSILE DEFENSE PROGRAM(a.k.a. Star
Wars)Marsha DavisCS- 403 Authoring techniques
in Computer Aided InstructionDr. Netiva Caftori
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Primary Objective
  • The objective of the National Missile Defense
    program is to develop and maintain the option to
    deploy a cost effective, operationally effective
    and Anti-Ballistic Missile (ABM) treaty compliant
    system that will protect the United States
    against limited ballistic missile threats,
    including accidental or unauthorized launches or
    Third World threats.

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Background History of NMD
  • The National Missile Defense program came into
    existence during the early 1960 when scientists
    and technicians worked on such a system, however,
    the less feasible it seemed. In 1972, President
    Richard Nixon and Soviet leader Leonid Brezhnev
    agreed to the Anti-Ballistic Missile (ABM) Treaty
    which forbade both sides from deploying a
    national missile-defense system, and restricted
    the testing which might make such a system
    possible.

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Presidential Administrations Agenda for
Missile Defense
  • Reagans Administration-Despite passage of the
    ABM treaty, the Reagan administration took up the
    cause again the 1980s. Ultimately, the Reagan
    administration spent tens of billions of dollars
    on the development of missile defense which the
    vast majority of scientists knew couldnt work .
    Reagan promised a nuclear shield that would
    achieve an ultimate security for the American
    people, such a system was never even conceivable.
  • Bush Administration-(Father) - proposed a limited
    system, renamed Global Protection Against
    Accidental Launch System. This system was
    proposed to protect Americans against an
    accidental launch. Bush also called for the
    development of Theater Missile Defense programs
    against shorter-range missiles. By the end of
    the Bush administration, over 100 billion had
    been spent on anti-missile research, with
    virtually nothing to show for it.

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Presidential Administrations Agenda for
Missile Defense
  • The Clinton Administration -- devised a
    Three-Plus-Three program which supported
    development of a national missile-defense system
    over three years. This program support the use
    of twenty ground-based interceptors, which could
    block missiles launched by accidental launches.
    However, Clinton plan could not protect the
    United States from major ballistic-missile
    strike. Estimates of the systems cost ranged
    from 30 to 60 billion.
  • The Bush Administration(Son) -- has called for
    early deployment of a national missile defense
    system. The systems under discussion include the
    mid-course, land-based system proposed by the
    Clinton Administration, but also boost-phase
    system, sea-based systems, expanded theater
    defenses, outer-space laser systems, and nuclear
    systems. The cost of the proposed system has not
    been determine yet

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Design
  • The National Missile Defense system, when fully
    deployed, would include
  • 1. Space -and ground-based sensors to provide
    early warning of attacking missiles and to
    initially identify and track them
  • 2. Ground-based radar to further identify and
    track the threatening warheads and assess whether
    the system destroyed the warheads
  • 3. Ground-based interceptors, each consisting of
    a three-stage booster and payload (called a kill
    vehicle) capable of guiding itself to collide
    with and destroy incoming warheads (a concept
    called hit-to-kill) outside the earths
    atmosphere and
  • 4. A battle management, command, control, and
    communications system.

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The Basics of Ballistic Missile Defense
  • All ballistic missile share a common, fundamental
    element
  • The missiles follow a ballistic trajectory which
    includes three phases
  • Phase I ---Boost Phase
  • Phase II Mid-Course Phase
  • Phase III Terminal Phase

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  • The Boost Phase --- is the phase in which the
    missile has been just launched and is thrusting
    to gain the acceleration needed to reach its
    target. This phase usually last 3 to 5 minutes
    and the missile is traveling on the rim or
    outside the earths atmosphere.
  • The Post-Boost Phase -- During this phase the
    missile has released the last of the reentry
    vehicle
  • The Mid-Course Phase --- During this phase the
    missile is free falling towards it target. Also,
    during the phase the missiles is arming itself
    with it weapons ( which are known as warheads)
    Normally this phase can last about 20 minutes.
  • The Final Phase --- (a.k.a. the terminal phase)
    During this phase the missiles warheads renters
    the earths atmosphere at incredible speeds,
    some at over 2,000 mpp.

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Cost
  • Today the United States has spent roughly 122
    billion dollars on various missile defense
    programs
  • 69 billion has been spent for research and
    development of such a potential system, rather
    than production.
  • The actual building of the space-based systems
    proposed will cost well over 200 billion dollars.

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American Opinion Poll
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The troubles the Missile Defense System will face
  • Low orbiting satellites will have to find and
    track with pinpoint accuracy complex warheads
    traveling at 15,000 miles which are surrounded by
    dozens of decoys
  • This information has to be relayed to the base
    command on the ground
  • Anti-ballistic missile will have to be launched
    with in a matter of seconds to intercept incoming
    missiles.

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Current Threats to the U.S.
  • In fact, the threat to the United States has
    actually shrunk. Currently Russia has about 5,200
    missile warheads deployed on one thousand
    missiles, a decrease of 52 percent in the number
    of missiles since 1980, and these decreases are
    likely to continue. China has presently some
    twenty ICBMs, a force which is not likely to
    increase unless the United States deploys an NMD
    system.
  • The threat in intermediate-range missiles (three
    to five thousand kilometers) has virtually ended
    due to the 1987 treaty banning them.
  • Only six nations -- Israel, Saudi Arabia, India,
    Pakistan, North Korea, and Iran -- have
    medium-range missiles (one to three thousand
    kilometers) and these do not threaten the
    territory of the United States. Only four of
    these nations have active programs for trying to
    stretch the range of these systems to over three
    thousand kilometers in the next ten years (India,
    Pakistan, North Korea, and Iran.)
  • Of the thirty-three nations with ballistic
    missiles, twenty-seven have only short-range
    missiles, that is, under a thousand kilometers.
  • China and Russia are still the only potential
    adversaries with the capability of hitting the
    United States with nuclear-armed missiles.

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One Students Perspective
  • I must admit that when I first started this
    project, I thought it was the most boring
    subject that I had to present on. However, my
    opinion has changed a complete 360 degrees. As
    an American, I can surly state that if we the
    people of the United States dont start cleaning
    up our own house, we our headed for complete
    destruction. Which will be our own fault. We
    waste too much money on the wrong programs, while
    our children grow up uneducated.
  • Our universities and colleges are filled to
    capacity with foreign students, while American
    students cant afford to attend college. Since
    the Reagan Administration, a whole generation has
    grown up physically but not mentally equipped to
    handle todays advance technology like the NMD
    programs.

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References
  • Special Weapons Monitor National Missile
    Defense http//www.fas.org/spp/starwars/program/nm
    d
  • International Policy Report Shield of Dreams
    Why National missile Defense Wont Work
    http//www.ciponline.org/dfd/shield.html
  • Indiana Peace Action Network Starwars
    http//www.ipan.net/starwars
  • The Cost of National Missile Defense Tens of
    Billions and Rising
    http//www.clw.org/coalition/nmd
    book00cost.html
  • http//www.ipan.net/star wars/
  • http//stream.realimpact.net/
  • THERE IS A LOT MORE JUST DO A SEARCH ON NATIONAL
    MISSILE DEFENSE
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