Tumblr Icon RSS Icon  The Right’s Naive Missile Defense Fantasy
By Max Bergmann on March 24, 2010 at 6:00 pm  "The Right’s Naive
Missile Defense Fantasy"   google plus icon
bakerspringYesterday on Heritage’s Blog, Baker Spring argued
that a better way to eliminate nuclear weapons is to build a
super awesome full proof missile defense system that makes it
pointless for other countries to have nuclear weapons. He argues
that instead of the multilateral arms-control approach pursued
by the Obama administration, the US should:  pursue more
fundamentally defensive strategic postures for the U.S. and
other nations. This is the best option for keeping the world as
far from the nuclear precipice as possible until it is clear
that a world without nuclear weapons can be achieved.  As
Kingston Reif and Travis Sharp point out Spring and others on
the right:  recycle(s) a snake oil sales pitch that first
emerged at the dawn of the Atomic Age. The illusion is that the
awesome destructiveness of nuclear weapons can someho