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2005-02-02 Home Front: Tech

Rumsfeld wants to restore bunker busters

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Posted by God Save The World 2005-02-02 3:15:43 AM|| || Front Page|| [2 views since 2007-05-07] Top

#1 "... a supersecret research program..."

Surely you must have heard of it; it's the most closely guarded of government secrets.

(Paraphrased from one of the Sherlock Holmes stories.)

Posted by jackal 2005-02-02 9:33:42 AM|| [http://home.earthlink.net/~sleepyjackal/index.html] 2005-02-02 9:33:42 AM|| Front Page Top

#2 "...supersecret research program..." with special editorial comment by Mohamed ElBaradei was brought to you today by news.com.au and "correspondents in Washington" and funded in part by "Hot Deals from Dell". Stay tuned for "Violent Planet" coming up next on this PBS station.

Posted by Tom 2005-02-02 10:01:31 AM|| 2005-02-02 10:01:31 AM|| Front Page Top

#3 Next, they'll be telling us about Uncle Sam's supersecret nuclear triad. And the supersecret anti-ballistic missile program. And the supersecret CIA, which tries to obtain *secrets* about friendly and hostile governments alike.

Posted by Zhang Fei 2005-02-02 10:33:54 AM|| [http://timurileng.blogspot.com] 2005-02-02 10:33:54 AM|| Front Page Top

#4 As a taxpayer, I'm totally ok with the open secret that if you are an "evil doer" there is no hole deep enough to protect you or your stuff.

Posted by Classical_Liberal 2005-02-02 11:08:59 AM|| 2005-02-02 11:08:59 AM|| Front Page Top

#5 Wonder if Kimmie reads the Aussie papers? Or the Iranian mullahs?

Posted by tu3031 2005-02-02 11:14:15 AM|| 2005-02-02 11:14:15 AM|| Front Page Top

#6 """You canât tell everyone âdonât touch nuclear weaponsâ while continuing to build them," (the idiot) Mr El Baradei said ..."""

Building new and better nukes while making sure others do NOT - that's exactly what we can and should be doing.

Posted by Glereper Craviter7929 2005-02-02 12:58:20 PM|| 2005-02-02 12:58:20 PM|| Front Page Top

#7 In an ideal world, all things being equal, it is wrong to build more nuclear weapons. The problem in reality is that there are people that have publically stated that they wish to destroy us by any means possible. People in most modern societies cannot bring themselves to believe that there are people that will do that without compunction.

So the path becomes for us, "Hope for the best and plan for the worst." Right now we have nuclear weapons that are mainly designed for air or surface burst. If we were forced to use these weapons, we are talking about a lot of extra collateral damage and fallout. The bunker buster nuclear weapon will minimize these effects and will achieve the goal of destroying underground facilities by heat, radiation, or shock wave.

It comes down to this, would you like the Big Bad USA to deal with this, or would you like Big Bad Iran or North Korea, or another country to commit nuclear blackmail or destruction? I am sure that the LLL will go apesh*t over this but that is the reality facing us.

Posted by Alaska Paul 2005-02-02 4:14:42 PM|| 2005-02-02 4:14:42 PM|| Front Page Top

#8 "But we deserve it!"

Posted by Dishman 2005-02-02 6:05:11 PM|| 2005-02-02 6:05:11 PM|| Front Page Top

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