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, isfar greater than the good. We somewhattimes ponder to our selves, "what would happenif we were forced in to a nuclear struggle strugglee their are now winners." The way lifewould be aft(prenominal) such an incident would change life as we know it drastically. Inthe event of a nuclear war with the Soviets we would have lost rough onehundred and fifty million American lives. 2 The major planet would be destroyed tothe extent that even thoughts who survived would have no perspective to live. NoGovernment, or persons, can win a nuclear war and as long as their are nuclearmissiles of mass death there will always be the risk of someone employ them.Once the first missile is unleashed their is no telling were it would stop.Our dealings with the motive Soviet Union was based on the French word,detente, that the Russians ha d defined as 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 goal 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 left with aproblem How can we beet this so called inevitability? The answer is laybased 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 commute the Soviets not only to reduce there nucleararsenal only when to halt any chance for a nuclear attack by the Soviets." What is the worth of our society as we know it? Right now we constitute anentire population hostage." 7 Ever since the 1960s our main defense against thesoviets has been the unhinged policy, Mutual Assured Destruction. Both the UnitedStates and the Soviet Union had tolerable nuclear weapons at their disposal 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 share the same fate.