Policy Debate On Putting Laser Ballistic Missile Defense System in Space

Just looking for input on my case. Please tear this to shreds I really need to make this case better. Run topicality's (Topic is NASA should substantial increase funding to exploration into space.) K's, anything you want. For a quick break down... Round 1: Opening arguments constructive speeches. Round 2: Ask 5 questions to me and I'll answer them and ask 5 of my own which you should answer in round 3. Round 3: Answer to round 1 points and second constuctives. Round 4: Same as round 2 Round 5: NO NEW EVIDENCE only conclusions on why you have won. Inherency [1/6] The current BMD plan does not do enough to protect from ballistic missiles. And only benefits European countries. James Jay Carafano, Ph.D. November 28, 2010 [http://www.heritage.org...] President Obama slashed the number of land-based interceptors planned to protect the U.S. homeland from ballistic missiles by 44 percent. Cuts included scrapping ballistic missile defense plan to defend the United States and U.S. allies against the threat of long- and medium-range ballistic missiles. These installations were to be completed by 2013. In its stead the White House elected to focus on more limited regional missile defense. Obama dubbed his "new" plan for Europe the Phased Adaptive Approach. In his effort to cheerlead for New START, Vice President Biden neglected to mention the limitations of this approach. Even if the Obama plan is implemented on schedule and at cost (questionable assumptions), Europe will remain vulnerable to long-range Iranian threats until 2020. The Missile Defense Agency is already two years behind the deployment plans. Inherency [2/6] The MDA funding has been cut substantially over this fiscal year. Department of Defense, February 14, 2011 [http://www.defense.gov...(3).pdf] The Obama administration has released their defense budget proposal for the year. $10.7 billion is being allocated to BMD, with $8.6 billion going to the Missile Defense Agency. Just over $2 billion is apportioned to help implement the 'Phased Adaptive.' BMD funding says that $780 million will be put toward various BMD programs. Given the emphasis under the Obama administration on the mid-range threat to Europe posed by Iran—rather than any long-range threat to the U.S. Harms [3/6] If we do not create a space bound BMD System the impact will be out right nuclear warfare and the extinction of the human race. Martin E. Hellman, 2008 [http://ee.stanford.edu...] Hiram Maxim, the inventor of the machine gun, declared, "Only a general who was a barbarian would send his men to certain death against the concentrated power of my new gun." But send them they did. Orville Wright saw a similar vision the airplane increased the ability to maim and kill. In firebombing raids on March 9, 1945, 25 percent of Tokyo was destroyed, 80,000 people were killed, and over 1 million left homeless. History shows the folly in hoping that each new, more destructive weapon will not be used. And yet we dare to hope that this time it will be different. We and the Soviets have amassed a combined arsenal of 50,000 nuclear weapons, equivalent in destructive force to some 6,000 World War II's, capable of reaching their targets in a matter of minutes, and able to destroy every major city in the world. Plan: The United States federal government should direct the National Aeronautics and Space Administration in cooperation with the Missile Defense Agency to develop and implement a space based BMD Laser. Solvency [4/6] This laser missile defense has been tested on ground before. Missile Defense Agency, February 11, 2010 [http://www.mda.mil...] The Missile Defense Agency demonstrated the potential use of directed energy to defend against ballistic missiles when the Airborne Laser Test Bed (ALTB) successfully destroyed a boosting ballistic missile. The experiment, serves as a proof-of-concept demonstration for directed energy technology. The ALTB is a pathfinder for the nation's directed energy program and its potential application for missile defense technology. February 11, 2010, a ballistic missile was launched Within seconds, the ALTB used onboard sensors to detect the boosting missile and used a low-energy laser to track the target. The ALTB then fired a second low-energy laser to measure and compensate for atmospheric disturbance. Finally, the ALTB fired its megawatt-class High Energy Laser, heating the boosting ballistic missile to critical structural failure. The entire engagement occurred within two minutes of the target missile launch. use of directed energy is very attractive for missile defense, with the potential to attack multiple targets at the speed of light and at a low cost per intercept attempt compared to current technologies. a second solid fuel missile was launched and the ALTB successfully engaged the boosting target with its High Energy Laser, met all its test criteria. Solvency [5/6] Increased funding in the development of missile defense lasers would cause for a quick creation and development of space based BMD. Shawna Thomas and Carrie Dann, October 13, 2010 [http://firstread.msnbc.msn.com...] "If there is a rogue missile aimed at our country, we have 33 minutes to figure out what we're going to do," Raese said "We are sitting with the only technology in the world that works and it's laser technology. We need 1000 laser systems put in the sky and we need it right now. the system would cost $20 billion. Ellison, the chairman of the Missile Defense Advocacy Alliance, said that lasers have shown great promise in the field of missile defense but - at least at current funding levels for the development of such programs the development lasers would be accelerated by Raese's proposed budget infusion.