NATO Launches Missile Defense Shield
NATO Chief: 'First Step' Toward Full Coverage of Europe
Though it was far from the focus of the high-profile Chicago summit, NATO today announced that the European missile defense shield is “provisionally operational,” and has reached “stage one.”
Officially, this means that the US transferred control of the radar system in Turkey to NATO’s command, and has direct control over the missile defense systems on board US ships in the region. The system is not expected to be fully operational until 2018.
NATO chief Anders Fogh Rasmussen said today’s announcement was an important first step toward that end, and that eventually NATO would have full coverage of all of Europe’s population.
The missile defense system has created enormous tensions with Russia, as NATO insists that the system is targeting Iran, but is deployed almost exclusively along the Russian frontier, and outside of the range of Iran’s best missiles.
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December
May 21st, 2012 at 9:58 pm
The warmongers in the US and Israel are itching to destroy Iran given the opportunity. Missile shield will be useless by the time it comes operation.
Walter Cole
May 21st, 2012 at 11:32 pm
What´s wrong with the Europeans? They will end up paying a fortune for this garbage and become targets for Russian missiles. The only thing the Americans want out of this is to support their military industry.
Roger Lafontaine
May 22nd, 2012 at 1:31 am
NATO claims to be building a 'missile shield'. What they are actually doing is rebuilding the blocks for nuclear war that were beginning to be taken down under Gorbachev-Reagan. They are rebuilding the superstructure for the destruction of the planet.
Guest
May 22nd, 2012 at 6:29 am
Delusions, delusions, delusions.
MvGuy
May 22nd, 2012 at 6:38 am
How's that 'easy-pleasey' Northern Route werkin out for yous NATO guise……..?????
Claus Eric Hamle
May 22nd, 2012 at 9:16 am
The Pentagon aims to achieve a disarming first strike capability according to missile engineer Bob Aldridge -www.plrc.org. The US Navy can track and destroy all enemy submarines simultaneously according to Bob Aldridge. Professor J. Edward Anderson: The deployment of anti-missile missiles in Eastern Europe is part of a first-strike strategy. Bob Aldridge on the missiles in Bulgaria, Romania and Poland: Whether they are on ships or land, they are still a necessary component for an unanswerable first strike. Der Spiegel 49/2011: The US Missile Shield in Eastern Europe will be fully operational by 2020. This leads to Launch On Warning and Accidental Nuclear War. GPS was made to get an accuracy of less than 30 meters for Minuteman-3 and Trident-2, necessary to destroy missile silos. Dr Bob Bowman, Chief DOD "Star Wars" Program: Missile defense is the missing link to first strike. It´s suicidal as Launch On Warning is inevitable. It was just a mistake, prepared by the bloody fools in the Pentagon for 50 years according to missile engineer Bob Aldridge -www.plrc.org.
Johnny_Warbucks
May 22nd, 2012 at 2:38 pm
Fantastic! And here we were thinking that Europe and the US were bankrupt. Apparently, we were all wrong. Oh, and btw, have the Lords of Wars disclosed who it is exactly that they are going to be protecting themselves from? Does anyone know? Or this is just in lieu of the cash cow known as Afghanistan?
MvGuy
May 22nd, 2012 at 4:22 pm
OOOOOOOOOOO Johnny OOOOOOOOOOO …….. Please!!! Say it ain so…!!!!!
Jesusinator
May 23rd, 2012 at 6:16 am
The rouge nation if israel needs to be dealt with. The problem is the war wanting christians in the US. Please don't label us all like that. Religion is to balme for most of this crap. This christian vs. muslium BS has to stop. When will these idiots realize all gods are man made?
Roger
May 23rd, 2012 at 6:23 am
You sound so 'cleric'.
Are you finally admitting you are pro-muslim and anti-Israel?
Jesusinator
May 23rd, 2012 at 6:26 am
Maybe you should read the comment. I bashed both man made religions
Roger
May 23rd, 2012 at 6:35 am
Is that where you pretend the Bible commands abortions?
Oh, that's on another thread.
You bounce around with your hate like a bouncing ball.
Johnny_Warbucks
May 23rd, 2012 at 3:19 pm
Upon further review, I have come to the conclusion that they are trying to protect themselves from alien attacks from outer space. Duh!
anti war
August 3rd, 2012 at 11:05 pm
Let's hope there will be nuclear Armageddon. An I hope the planners in the war room of the Pentagon will be those will die a lingering,slow motion death for planning and starting this war.
Claus Eric Hamle
November 4th, 2012 at 4:40 pm
It´s sick ! They don´t believe in Nuclear Winter, they thnk they can avoid it by earth-penetrating warheads. That´s the reason the warheads from MX were put on Minuteman-3. 1-3 % casualties in United Bluff ? They forget that the Russians aren´t stupid – Launch On Warning by 2017.