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

"For the first time humankind has the power to destroy itself." 1 Thenuclear age has changed the world, for the good and the bad. Though the bad, is farthermost greater than the good. We several(prenominal)times ponder to our selves, "what would happenif we were forced in to a nuclear war ware their are now winners." The way 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 some onehundred and fifty million American lives. 2 The planet would be destroyed tothe extent 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 nuclearmissiles of mass destruction there leave always 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 ground on the French word,detente, that the Russians had defined a s a freedom to purchase subversion,aggression and expansionism any were in the world. 3 The soviets have been, upuntil 1990, the U.Ss defacto enemies. There design was too destroy democracy andimposing communism. 4 This is way it was though to be inevitable for a nuclearwar with the soviets. "The dream 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 leftover with aproblem How can we beet this so called inevitability? The answer is spacebased defense weapons. The program, brought forth by the Reagan administration,was called the strategic 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 reduce there nucleararsenal but to parry any chance for a nuclear attack by the Soviets." What is the worth of our society as we know it? Right now we hold anentire universe hostage." 7 Ever since the 1960s our main defense against thesoviets has been the MAD policy, Mutual Assured Destruction. Both the UnitedStates and the Soviet Union had enough nuclear weapons at their presidency so thatif one fired at the other the one that was being fired at would fire itsmissiles at the other too. In other words, they would care the same fate.