Bush official urges weapons labs to explore 'range of technical options' in nuke designs

The Sacramento Bee ^ | Thursday, December 11, 2003 | LESLIE HOFFMAN, Associated Press Writer

[Ernest_at_the_Beach]

ALBUQUERQUE, N.M. (AP) - A memo from a top Bush official to the nation's nuclear weapons labs celebrating the repeal of a ban on low-yield nuclear weapons research is chest-beating reminiscent of a Cold War-era arms climate, anti-nuclear advocates say.

[FairOpinion]

Interesting.

I somehow missed that the ban was removed, but I am glad -- we need to have the option to use nuke to obliterate say a biological weapons factory, without having to obliterate the entire country and its population.

[Ernest_at_the_Beach]

Seems resonable to me!

[TLI]

Democrats countered that the change could trigger a new arms race and increase the risk of nuclear war.

well duh.... It was pushing forward the arms race that cause the USSR to go under. Maybe this time Korea and China?

[Ernest_at_the_Beach]

Right!

[autoresponder]

Check out NRDC/Natural Resources Defense Council

Larry David's wife (Seinfeld/HateBush Hollywood party!) is a biggie there with Robert Redford

Go figure!

[Fledermaus]

What good does this do if we never use them? And we never will.

[BlackbirdSST]

we need to have the option to use nuke to obliterate say a biological weapons factory...

Nonsense. Conventional weapon's can perform that task. This is just dirt stupid, and the new technology will be in our enemies hands before the ink dries. Blackbird.

[Southack]

[MeekOneGOP]

Interesting ...

In the memo, Brooks called on the labs to "close any gaps" that may have opened in nuclear weapons research over the last decade. He warned that "no novel nuclear weapons concept developed by any other nation should ever come as a technical surprise to us."

"When they're pounding their chests about research, they're pounding their chests about research, development and eventual deployment because they view these votes as an endorsement of" the Bush administration's nuclear review, Mello said.

[Yak]

. . . the new technology will be in our enemies hands before the ink dries.

I agree. And the minute we use one it will give moral justification to those wanting to use 'dirty bombs' (radiological weapons) against us. While I agree some of these kooks may already think using them (even against civilians) is morally justified, this will just embolden them all the more.

I don't think this is a black-and-white issue.

[Paul Ross]

$401.3 billion defense authorization bill that lifted a decade-old ban on research into low-yield nuclear weapons and authorized $15 million for continued research into the Robust Nuclear Earth Penetrator, capable of destroying deep underground bunkers.

These are R&D efforts which I have long advocated. As expounded earlier by Gordon Prather.

Your ping to the issue is odd. It only confirms I was right, and you were wrong. Duh. No BIG NUKES to accentuate and improve the Minuteman III. Only piddly tactical stuff which will be launched by other vehicles. Useful, but not strategically significant. The Earth penetrator is also low-yield btw.

[PhilDragoo]

Bingaman put Charlie Trie on his Commission to Beijing as a favor to the former's good friend traitorrapist42.

Bingaman's wife persecuted Bill Gates while part of Renodyke antitrust--then made a record two mill for six month's lobbying FCC on behalf of Global Crossing.

Mello and the other ostrich dorks are johnny-one-notes on the bad, bad, bad, bad world of nooks.

We even had Martin Sheen up on the hill spouting the Lord's Prayer and getting his pot belly arrested.

Seriously, we do need a nuclear device small enough to insert as suppository in Kim Jong Il, Syria's Assad, Rafsanjani and other a-holes.

Now to repeal Executive Order 12333.

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[McCloud-Strife]

Since China stole all our old nuke designs, I suppose it is time to build new weapons so the Democrats can let the Chinese steal some new stuff

[potlatch]

That's a good one, auto!!

[Monty22]

Yeah, the last thing we want to do is irk islamics. They may attack us or something.

[autoresponder]

I have a feeling things have tightened up a tad at Energy now

Not like Hazel O'Leary's "open door" labs!

[MeekOneGOP]

Now to repeal Executive Order 12333.

Which one is that ? The one prohibiting assassinations ? ...