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A2 – Referendum CPPublic doesn’t understand deflection techniques—they’ll demand that we blow it upChapman ‘7 (Clark, fellow at Southwest Research Institute, Ch. 7: The Asteroid Impact Hazard and Interdisciplinary Issues, in Comet/Asteroid Impacts and Human Society: An Interdisciplinary Approach, SpringLink) People are inclined to visualize the problem as involving an NEA that is on its way in and the way to deal with it is to “blow it up” shortly before it hits. The picture of an NEA orbiting the Sun countless times (and for decades, centuries, or longer) before it hits – all the while remaining in our cosmic neighborhood, where it is accessible by spacecraft – is difficult to get across. NASA supports using nuclear weapons – that’s the 1AC Schweikart and Chapman evidence, and it’s likely that the public will just believe NASA even though NASA is wrongNuclear weapons are our weapon of first resortGerrard & Barber ‘97 (Michael & Anna, Asteroids and Comets: U.S. and International Law and the Lowest-Probability, Highest Consequence Risk, New York Univ. Environmental Law Journal, http://www1.law.nyu.edu/journals/envtllaw/issues/vol6/1/6nyuelj4.html) If an NEO is found to be on a collision course with the Earth, some people's first reaction would be to attempt to blow it up with nuclear warheads. This could prove counterproductive, however, if several of the resulting fragments are still on a course to Earth and are large enough to penetrate its atmosphere; this situation could increase rather than decrease the destruction caused by impact with our planet. 27 The composition of the object is very important--nickel-iron asteroids will be far more difficult to break apart into multiple small pieces than chrondite *10 asteroids or ice-and-dust comets. 28 Observation from a spacecraft located close to the object may be required to determine its particular composition. Most astronomers seem to feel that it is usually better to deflect an object than to fragment it if there is enough warning time. The idea is simply to move the asteroid or comet enough so that it and the Earth will not be at the same place at the same time. In the words of John S. Lewis, co-director of the NASA/University of Arizona Space Engineering Research Center, we are not trying to banish the asteroid from the inner solar system; we are merely trying to avoid a single predicted impact with Earth. Suppose our asteroid-search team finds a 250-meter body that is due to hit Earth dead center a few hundred years from now. This same body has probably been crossing Earth's orbit for 10 million to 100 million years without an impact. If we can just ease it by Earth without an impact on this one occasion, we may well buy ourselves another 30 million years to figure out what to do the next time it threatens us. 29 To accomplish this diversion, nuclear devices seem to be the only currently available technology that can deliver enough energy to move a large object far enough to avoid an Earth impact. 30 According to one analysis, the method that may transfer the momentum from the blast to the object most effectively involves burying the device below the surface of the asteroid. 31 Care must be taken not to inadvertently fragment the object. 32 Many of the technologies that would be necessary for such a mission-data processing, telemetry, power supply, sensors, propulsion, etc., have been under development for military purposes by *11 the U.S. Department of Defense's Ballistic Missile Defense Organization, formerly known as the Strategic Defense Initiative Organization (and popularly known as "Star Wars"). 33 A2 ConsultVeto vote kills leadershipCarroll ‘9 (James, Notes & Comments Editor, Emory International Law Review; J.D., with Honors, Emory University School of Law, attorney for the Huddleston Law Firm, 23 Emory Int'l L. Rev. 167, lexis)  n221. See Thomas Friedman, Op-Ed., 9/11 is Over, N.Y. Times, Sept. 30, 2007, § 4, at 12. This does not mean, however, that foreign countries should hold a veto over U.S. foreign or domestic policies, particularly policies that are not directly related to their national survival. Allowing foreign countries or international institutions to veto or modify unrelated U.S. policies would make a mockery of our foreign policy and destroy the credibility of American leadership. International cooperation does not require making our policy subservient to the whims of other nations. See generally The Allies and Arms Control (F.O. Hampson et al. eds., 1992). See also Khalilzad, supra note 177.
Nuclear warKhalilzad ‘95 (Zalmay, RAND policy analyst, Spring, The Washington Quarterly, Vol. 18, No. 2, “Losing the Moment?”) Under the third option, the United States would seek to retain global leadership and to preclude the rise of a global rival or a return to multipolarity for the indefinite future. On balance, this is the best long-term guiding principle and vision. Such a vision is desirable not as an end in itself, but because a world in which the United States exercises leadership would have tremendous advantages. First, the global environment would be more open and more receptive to American values -- democracy, free markets, and the rule of law. Second, such a world would have a better chance of dealing cooperatively with the world’s major problems, such as nuclear proliferation, threats of regional hegemony by renegade states, and low-level conflicts. Finally, U.S. leadership would help preclude the rise of another hostile global rival, enabling the United States and the world to avoid another global cold or hot war and all the attendant dangers, including a global nuclear exchange. U.S. leadership would therefore be more conducive to global stability than a bipolar or a multipolar balance of power system. Directory: files files -> Answer True False 2 points Question 2 files -> Integer programming and game theory files -> 4 Integer Programming files -> Bpa vehicle Window Repair Scenario #1 task: Procure vehicle window relacement. Objective files -> Pop Warner History files -> North Carolina Inclusion Initiative Mapping Where Children with ieps are Being Served Purpose files -> Fall 2013 Spring 2014 Program Data: Standard 1 Exhibit 4d files -> Hanban – asia society confucius classrooms network 2010 request for proposal files -> Northern England’s set-jetting locations Download 1.03 Mb. Share with your friends:
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