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2NC – ! Super SoldiersRussia is developing genetically-engineered super soldiers – makes the war unwinnable and causes extinction.Holloway ‘16 (Henry Holloway is the Chief Reporter at Star Online, He cites Bob Work, the deputy secretary of defense at the Pentagon and US Air Force Colonel Dave Shunk, Star Online, 2016 "Dawn of the super soldier: Russia 'creating steroid-fuelled bionic warriors for battle'")(Shiv) Top American military chiefs have warned Moscow is working to create “enhanced human operations” technology which they say “scares the crap out of us”. Super-soldiers are fast becoming a reality as armies across the world search for ways to beef up their troopers to make them stronger, faster, and more deadly. But while most future weapons are based around robotics, lasers and exoskeletons, defense bigwigs in the United States believe Russia is going one step beyond to create the ultimate super soldier. Military science experts have predicted super soldiers could be very close to the horizon and Russia could be leading the way. Steroids and other performance enhancing drugs can be pumped into soldiers bodies to make them tougher on the battlefield. The drugs would allow troops to march for longer distances faster, carry more gear, and fight more fiercely in close combat. Brain implants can also be embedded into soldiers heads to allow them to shoot with better aim or be more susceptible to orders. Microscopic technology could also be implanted into men which would fix their wounds on the battlefield without need for a medic. Bionics could also be used to allow men to control machines or extensive prosthetics with their minds. Pentagon commander Bob Work, the deputy secretary of defense, said: “Our adversaries, quite frankly, are pursuing enhanced human operations. And it scares the crap out of us, really.” The former artillery battalion commander said the US is working on tech to assist soldiers such as exoskeletons– as opposed to the suggested biological Russian gear to enhance soldiers. He added the United States is facing a “big, big decision on whether or not we are comfortable going that way" in a speech. America’s secret science DARPA division is already exploring the tech needed to create super soldiers. Their scientists have researched mind-altering pain vaccines, drugs which mean soldiers can stay awake for longer periods, and microscopic magnets which would seal wounds in the wave of a hand. Russia’s superhuman schemes extend to their athletes where a state-sponsoring doping programme landed them in trouble at the Olympics. Maria Sharapova was caught out using the drug Meldonium – which the Soviet Union used to bolster their soldiers during the Cold War. The pharmaceutical was unwittingly necked by Russian troopers during the superpower’s invasion of Afghanistan after being given it by military chiefs to boost their endurance. The drug’s inventor Ivar Kalvins told a Latvian newspaper in a 2009 interview “They were all given meldonium. They themselves were not aware they were using it. No one was being asked if they agree to it back then”. Russia is not the only power to have been experimenting with superhuman technology – as America said they suspect China could also be working on “enhanced human operations”. Nazis during World War 2 also used performance enhancers to boost the Third Reich’s soldiers – using pills based on Crystal Meth to make them fight longer as they stormed across Europe. The British Ministry of Defence is looking into the feasibility of super soldiers in the next 30 years according to papers made public in 2013 – featuring augmented bodies and even telepathy by signalling from electronic chips in their brain. US Air Force Colonel Dave Shunk, now retired, described the possibilities of America’s war against supermen in a report about soldiers of the near future. He wrote: “The Army must come to terms not only with creating—or fighting against—enhanced soldiers but also with understanding the unforeseen ethical challenges He added: “The soldier of the future likely will be enhanced through neuroscience, biotechnology, nanotechnology, genetics, and drugs.” Stephen Hawking has warned humanity's pursuit of deadlier weapons and new technology could lead to arms race which would spell our doom. Moscow archives also show a superhuman programme as early as the 1920s. Allegedly soviet dictator Stalin told scientist Ilya Ivanov “I want a new invincible human being, insensitive to pain, resistant and indifferent about the quality of food they eat.” The Kremlin passed a request to Russia’s top scientists to create a “living war machine”. Download 0.83 Mb. Share with your friends:
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