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TOPIC B: United States’ Missile shield in Europe
Introduction
Missile Shield
A missile shield it’s a new way countries use so they can protect for a missile. It works by radar
that detects the missile and sends another missile so it can intercept it in air, and destroy it.
Nuclear Weapons
A nuclear weapon derives its destructive force from nuclear reactions of fusion or fission. As a
result, even a nuclear weapon with a small yield is significantly more powerful than the largest
conventional explosives, and a single weapon is capable of destroying an entire city.
History of national missile defense systems
In the late 1950s, the Nike-Zeus program investigated the use of Nike nuclear missiles as
interceptors against Soviet ICBMs. A Nike warhead would be detonated at high altitudes (over
100 km /60 statute miles) above the polar regions in the near vicinity of an incoming Soviet
missile. While rocket technology offered some hope of a solution, the problem of how to quickly
identify and track incoming missiles proved intractable, especially in light of easily envisioned
countermeasures such as decoys and chaff.
NATO:
The North Atlantic Treaty Organization, also called the North Atlantic Alliance, the Atlantic
Alliance, established by the signing of the North Atlantic Treaty, the organization established a
system of collective defense where by its member states agree to mutual defense in response to
an attack by any external country. The NATO countries members are: Belgium, Bulgaria,
Canada, Czech Republic, Denmark, Estonia, France, Germany, Greece, Hungary, Iceland, Italy,
Latvia, Lithuania, Luxembourg, Netherlands, Norway, Poland, Portugal, Romania, Slovakia,
Slovenia, Spain, Turkey, United Kingdom, United States.
Information of the Missile Shield
President George W. Bush warned that Europe urgently needed a US missile defense system to
blunt a growing threat from Iran, despite vocal opposition from Russia.
The government of the United States of America thinks that today they have no way to defend
Europe against the emerging Iranian threat, and so they must deploy a missile defense system
there that can.
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Defense Secretary Robert Gates said in Prague that the United States might build the system
but delay activating it until there was a definitive proof of an Iranian threat.
The United States has been increasingly vocal about what it says is the threat posed by Iran,
including its nuclear program, alleged support for terrorism, and alleged aid to insurgents
targeting US forces in Iraq. But Russian President Vladimir Putin has blasted that plans for a
separate US missile shield and warned Washington against any military action against Iran,
which says it seeks atomic energy for civilian purposes. Gates said Tuesday in Prague that
Washington had proposed a Russian presence at the planned US anti-missile sites in Poland
and the Czech Republic .Missile defense elements the United States plans to deploy in Central
Europe are undoubtedly directed against Russia Federation, the country's top military
commander think. United States wants to place radar in the Czech Republic and 10 missile
interceptors in Poland, Russia says the European shield would destroy the strategic balance of
forces and threaten Russia's national interests.
The alleged Iranian missile threat was used by the United States to deploy weaponry close to
Russia's borders, Iran does not have the technology to develop and produce long-range inter-
continental ballistic missiles, and that’s what some countries have avowed.
Latest news:
The United States affirmed that it could delay the anti-missile installation of the shield in East
Europe, if Russia accepts to cooperate in the project and please changes its opposition in a new
geostrategic relation.
On January in his tour by the Middle East, in Abbu Dhabi, president of the United States George
W. Bush made a call to the Arab countries be united against Iran.
President George W. Bush accused the Iranian government to undermine the peace in Lebanon,
to send arms to the movement Taliban in Afghanistan and to intimidate his neighbors.
The government of Iran responded immediately. The President of Iran described the
declarations of President George W. Bush like "words without value".
Importance
It’s important to stop the tension, considering that this could bring a new conflict that would affect
most of the countries.
1. How can we strengthen the diplomatic relations between the nations?
2. What are the intentions of the nations in controversy?
3. What kind of resolution would all the countries accept?
4. Which block does your country supports?
Members
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