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To: Nogbad
Rumsfield says they are in short supply.

Fortunately we have thousands of 25 megaton nuclear warheads we're just dying to put to use.

4 posted on 12/12/2001 12:08:25 AM PST by Heisenburger
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To: Heisenburger
Fortunately we have thousands of 25 megaton nuclear warheads we're just dying to put to use.

Yea. Since Bush promised Putin to cut our nuclear arsenal, we should start now by dropping a nice amount on Iraq, Syria, Iran and Sudan.

13 posted on 12/12/2001 12:55:39 AM PST by BrooklynGOP
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To: Heisenburger
Here's a little of what I found about our nuclear aresenal:

The W88 Warhead
... In the fall of 1990 Congress directed that a study be done on W-88 safety due to
the use on non-insensitive high explosive. In December the study committee ...

Panel of Experts.W-88
Panel of Experts -- W-88. With respect to this second widely reported general and
specific allegation (p90) in the Cox Report of the "theft of design ...

C-SPAN: Report on Chinese Espionage
... warhead in the US intercontinental ballistic missile arsenal. Together, these include
the W-88 Trident D-5 thermonuclear warhead, and the W-56 Minuteman II ...

Trident II (USA) - D-5 - USNI Military Database
... a hard target kill capability. It is estimated that a D-5 W88 warhead has an 88%
probability of kill against a target hardened to 7,200 psi (506 kg/sq. cm). ...

Russia May Sell Nuke Subs to China [Free Republic]
... per warhead. The USA's W88 warhead carried by the Ohio class (D5 warhead - 2nd gen
Ohio's) ICBM submarines have a nominal yield of 475 kilotons ... 24 missiles ...

15 posted on 12/12/2001 1:47:24 AM PST by backhoe
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