{"id":3251,"date":"2018-04-04T21:57:20","date_gmt":"2018-04-04T21:57:20","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blogs.plymouth.ac.uk\/dcss\/?p=3251"},"modified":"2018-04-04T21:57:20","modified_gmt":"2018-04-04T21:57:20","slug":"star-wars-missile-defence-is-back-but-not-how-it-should-be","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blogs.plymouth.ac.uk\/dcss\/2018\/04\/04\/star-wars-missile-defence-is-back-but-not-how-it-should-be\/","title":{"rendered":"\u201cSTAR WARS\u201d MISSILE DEFENCE IS BACK BUT NOT HOW IT SHOULD BE"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/blogs.plymouth.ac.uk\/dcss\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/50\/2015\/09\/xlarge_Topol-M.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-large wp-image-173\" src=\"http:\/\/blogs.plymouth.ac.uk\/dcss\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/50\/2015\/09\/xlarge_Topol-M-1024x655.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"560\" height=\"358\" srcset=\"https:\/\/blogs.plymouth.ac.uk\/dcss\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/50\/2015\/09\/xlarge_Topol-M-1024x655.jpg 1024w, https:\/\/blogs.plymouth.ac.uk\/dcss\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/50\/2015\/09\/xlarge_Topol-M-300x192.jpg 300w, https:\/\/blogs.plymouth.ac.uk\/dcss\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/50\/2015\/09\/xlarge_Topol-M-560x358.jpg 560w, https:\/\/blogs.plymouth.ac.uk\/dcss\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/50\/2015\/09\/xlarge_Topol-M-260x166.jpg 260w, https:\/\/blogs.plymouth.ac.uk\/dcss\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/50\/2015\/09\/xlarge_Topol-M-160x102.jpg 160w, https:\/\/blogs.plymouth.ac.uk\/dcss\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/50\/2015\/09\/xlarge_Topol-M.jpg 1280w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 560px) 100vw, 560px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Sourced: Asia Times<\/p>\n<p>By Doug Tsuruoka<\/p>\n<p>Space-based missile tracking sensors, high-energy particle beams that zap nuclear warheads and President Donald Trump\u2019s call for a new \u201cSpace Force\u201d branch of the US military.<\/p>\n<p>For those who remember President Ronald Reagan\u2019s Strategic Defense Initiative (SDI) of almost four decades ago, it sounds like d\u00e9j\u00e0 vu all over again. Reagan pitched building an ambitious anti-missile system in 1983 dubbed \u201cStar Wars.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>The R&amp;D effort, which included space-based lasers, was sidetracked by funding shortfalls and the collapse of the Soviet Union. But it appears to have gained a new lease on life.<\/p>\n<p>Read more at: http:\/\/www.atimes.com\/article\/star-wars-missile-defense-back-not\/\/<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Sourced: Asia Times By Doug Tsuruoka Space-based missile tracking sensors, high-energy particle beams that zap nuclear warheads and President Donald Trump\u2019s call for a new \u201cSpace Force\u201d branch of the US military. For those who remember President Ronald Reagan\u2019s Strategic Defense Initiative (SDI) of almost four decades ago, it sounds like d\u00e9j\u00e0 vu all over&hellip; <a class=\"more-link\" href=\"https:\/\/blogs.plymouth.ac.uk\/dcss\/2018\/04\/04\/star-wars-missile-defence-is-back-but-not-how-it-should-be\/\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">\u201cSTAR WARS\u201d MISSILE DEFENCE IS BACK BUT NOT HOW IT SHOULD BE<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":173,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[6],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-3251","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-security-and-strategy","entry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.plymouth.ac.uk\/dcss\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3251","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.plymouth.ac.uk\/dcss\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.plymouth.ac.uk\/dcss\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.plymouth.ac.uk\/dcss\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.plymouth.ac.uk\/dcss\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=3251"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.plymouth.ac.uk\/dcss\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3251\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":3253,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.plymouth.ac.uk\/dcss\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3251\/revisions\/3253"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.plymouth.ac.uk\/dcss\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/173"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.plymouth.ac.uk\/dcss\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3251"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.plymouth.ac.uk\/dcss\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3251"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.plymouth.ac.uk\/dcss\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3251"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}