Do you think we have a missle defense system up but are just not being told about it?
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I know we have one under development & partially deployed, but one fully operational?  Not yet.\n\nBut, then again, it is entirely possible it's finished but classified.  Although given the number of low-level leaks people make in the CIA & Pentagon about stuff they don't like, we'd probably have heard by now.
760624
Russian designers and Russian technology in general has over the years been vastly underestimated. In the west, especially the US over hype and promote their weapons systems as though they were a feature film! The Russian ministry of defence gives away very little and this has always been the case. I wouldn't be too surprised at what these systems can do. Also if they are showing these aircraft at parades and issuing them to stunt teams, just think about the weapons which will not show you!!!
224740
none that I know of. They probably are blinded by the fact that it is suppossed to fight terrorism. the opperative word being 'suppossed'. It's like their privacy is not important. My mother-in-law would follow G.W. into a tornado if he said it would fight terrorism. Oh well, I say. We all die anyway.
539147
do not answer questions like this people. It may be our enemy trying to find a way to defeat our equipment.
170249
who knows? I think maybe yes, as spies!!!! nobody knows they are around.
1073536
We are being lulled into a false sense of security.  People don't connect the war in Iraq and the various anti-terrorism policies at home (patriot act, phone records, etc) with a 100% 'no terrorist attack' success rate in the US.  But the truth is that these are part of the reason why there have been no attacks - not 100% of the reason, but not 0% either.  The fact that people are complaining about these activities suggests that they have naively developed a false sense of security - the "immunity" America felt in the 1990s.\n\nWith that said, there have been terrorist attacks in "the west" since 9-11 - specifically in Spain and Britain.
238155
I don't think we are blind about it we just don't do anything about it...if we all write letters and complain to the government something might happen......but I see  your point...
1185543
See .... you have it just right.\n\nThe U.S. doesn't know either and that is why they turned on a few of our rockets, just in case.
126128
Who knows, probably. I think they've been using the crop circles for navigation. We'll probably never know since the government is so secretive on this topic (Roswell, Area 51).
786715
Um...no. and if someone was I should hope they aren't silly enough to tell everyone.\n\nPredators could then begin working on coming to kidnap them.
566567
See my earlier answer about missile defense. This is still one of the technological weaknesses of the system that keeps it from being viable.
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For one thing, this isn't a big cover-up conspiracy, as there is a massive amount of information on EMP readily available on the internet or at your library.   Secondly, you said the answer yourself, we don't really have an adequate defense scheme.  Why would you induce public panic when you don't have any good advice or solutions to offer people?  Furthermore, I whole-heartedly doubt that folks in Washington haven't considered this threat.  They know about thousands of potential security risks, and constantly have to judge which are the highest priorities.  This one is currently a low priority because nobody has really built a massive EMP weapon (aside from nuclear bombs, but then you have bigger problems).  In other words, it's really not very likely to be a threat any time soon.  Possible?  Yes, of course, but not likely.\n\nAlso, did you consider writing a letter to your Congressmen, or other officials?  Maybe you should let them know your ideas, since you feel so strongly about them.
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Of course they realize it - and to an extent, people have.\n\nHowever, they also realized that monitoring a system of this size is unworkable, and that for every stupid question, there are quite a few legitimate and interesting ones.  Similarly, for every "dumb" or uninformed answer, there will be several helpful ones.\n\nThe only thing to do is to, as clichéd as it sounds, be a part of the solution and not the problem.
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In reference to another post there is no working star wars program in place, we are just as vulnerable to a missile attack today as we were fifty years ago, now the likelihood of a large scale nuclear attack is much much lower without the soviets runnin around, though it is always possible that by some computer error that a launch will take place from either us or the russian silos, afterwards if we don't convince each other that it was a mistake it would probably lead to a full scale nuclear exchange, now that covers the U.S. and Russia, but don't forget the other nuclear nations out there such as Pakistan and India which are pretty much where the U.S. and Soviets were twenty years ago, so on that side of the planet I would say within the next two years that there is a 20% possibility of a nuclear exchange barring any massive change in policy or major event such as some sort of military incident betweent those two countries. It is possible that there could be a nuclear device smuggled and detonated in the U.S. by some terrorist organisation but that would not lead to a nuclear war, unless the perpetrators of such an attack posessed a nuclear arsenal. Let me just say that with today's great technology a nuclear device does not have to be any bigger than a briefcase and with lax border control and nearly unlimited funding for terrorist organisations in addition to lack of intelligence on nuclear material around the world it is very possible that some terrorist organisation may suceed in detonating a device on American soil. Let's all hope that never happens
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It would be a perfect opportunity for the Pentagon to test its new missile defensive system but they are face with some problems.  First, intelligence is not certain if this missile test is a actual warhead or a satelite that is intented to go to space.  Back in 1998 when North Korean launched its missile, it was a satellite that failed to reach space.  They are trying to launch a satellite because they think the U.S. is monopolizing space and is threatening an arms race in space.  Second, the missile defense system, first envisioned by Raegan, has some flaws.  The defensive system might miss its target and hit neighboring countrys.  I doubt the U.S. will be forced to use the missile defensive system because I think North korea will eventually back off because of internation pressure but it would be nice to see tax payers money at work.  STAR WARS!
900862
Well in that respect, you could just about say that every military installation is effectively defended.......there aren't that many stories out there about people trying to sneak on and being successful.    And they do use cameras to help, and I with my own eyes have seen motion detectors being used.......\nWe all know the military has the best technology,  why they refuse to implement Any technology is a clear sign that our gov. doesn't want to stop illegal immigration.  \nAnd them saying a fence won't work, is partly true.....  if they plan on just putting a chain link up...well yea that won't work.  They need to use technology on our border.  And a fence/wall that is not just one little fence.   Layers, razor wires ,concrete, steel.....and they better make sure they take the fence at least 10 ft. underground.
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So far our asteroid deflection technology is only hypothetical. We would probably want to study our options in more detail first, as well as learn more about the structure of asteroids. Actual missions to asteroids take lots of time and money, which no one is prepared to spend just yet.\n\nWhich brings up a key point - asteroid defense is pathetically underfunded, in both threat detection and deflection technologies. If more people asked questions like yours, maybe the powers that be would do something about it.