U.S. Prepares Non-Nuclear “Doomsday” Weapon part.1

In a recent interview with the newspaper The New York Times, the U.S. president, Barack Obama revealed that his administration gave the green light for the study and development of a new kind of concept of a military attack without the use of nuclear weapons, but with the same destructive power. This concept is called Prompt Global Strike, a system of attack with missiles and “conventional” weapons that can reach any point on earth within an hour. Political and financial support to the project is not lacking. Robert Gates, Secretary of Defense, told the U.S. broadcaster ABC that the administration has embraced the Prompt Global Strike. This includes the $250 million that Obama has asked from Congress in order to explore this alternative, which combines a military and aerospace technology edge. John McCain, Republican presidential candidate in 2008, has also expressed his support for a program that is both “expensive as essential.” Reservations for the new generation of Trident missiles, originally designed to incorporate the “Prompt Global Strike,” meant that many in the Defense Department turned to alternatives. The answer should be a missile project that is called X-51: a weapon that the radars of Beijing and Moscow will not in theory confuse with a nuclear missile. Using NASA space technology, this is the only non-nuclear weapon capable of reaching speeds of Mach-5 (5793 kilometers per hour) using the brutal effects of hypersonic speed to destroy targets with kinetic force coupled with a “conventional” warhead. According to the Pentagon, this system will not be operational before 2015 and most likely its development will continue until 2020. According to American military science fiction, this weapon can be launched from a B-52 bomber and is capable of shattering a nuclear Iran or North Korea or to destroy a ship loaded with weapons in the Middle East or even explode the hideout of Bin Laden – who the U.S. gave up on finding long ago. All of this is complete with cinematographic “extreme precision” in a few minutes and located with a power equivalent to a nuclear bomb. And so “humane” that it would not “mess” with the surrounding environment, as happens with the radiation emitted in an atomic explosion. Pentagon predicted activation in 2015 The Pentagon hopes to deploy a first version of the new weapon in 2014 or 2015. But even under the most optimistic time frame, a complete set of missiles, warheads, sensors and control systems should not enter into the arsenal between 2017 and 2020, long after Obama has left the government.

Source: www.pravda.ru