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2009-03-10 Home Front: WoT

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Posted by Steve White 2009-03-10 00:00|| || Front Page|| [2 views ] Top

#1 Ask the Chinese for a copy of our warhead blueprints.

Posted by ed 2009-03-10 00:37|| 2009-03-10 00:37|| Front Page Top

#2 And since we can't test, there is no way to know if the stuff we reverse engineered actually works or not. Wonderful!

Posted by Ebbusoter Tojo7688 2009-03-10 00:59|| 2009-03-10 00:59|| Front Page Top

#3 Er, the subject scientists have retired. So have many of the design engineers. So have many of the production line personnel.

It is akin to our nuclear power plant operators, many of whom have been bribed out of retirement.

Posted by Highlander 2009-03-10 01:40|| 2009-03-10 01:40|| Front Page Top

#4 We can test them when we discover a killer asteroid headed for Berkeley; not to save Berkeley, of course; but to give the 'roid an Orion-style boost on its terminal trajectory.

Nukes and 'roids, the only way to be sure.

Posted by Atomic Conspiracy 2009-03-10 01:43|| 2009-03-10 01:43|| Front Page Top

#5 On second thought, there is no need for testing.

I'll bet this nuke foam is every bit as good as the new-fangled insulating foam NASA put on the shuttles to appease the eco-wackies.

Posted by Atomic Conspiracy 2009-03-10 02:21|| 2009-03-10 02:21|| Front Page Top

#6 "I'll bet this nuke foam is every bit as good as the new-fangled insulating foam NASA put on the shuttles to appease the eco-wackies."

Same thought I had. Which led to the whole testing thing. Some environmental regulation prevents them from using some chemical to build a weapon that isn't exactly all that "green" ... oh, the irony. And they can't test it and we end up with a "hope it works" deterrent.

Posted by crosspatch 2009-03-10 05:07|| 2009-03-10 05:07|| Front Page Top

#7 Or, on the part of some outside of NNSA, a 'hope it doesn't work' deterrent.

Posted by lotp 2009-03-10 10:37|| 2009-03-10 10:37|| Front Page Top

#8 This is a catastrophe in the making for some time. And the nitwits in charge now will almost surely fail to avert it. The whole hysterical quasi-religious anti-nuke mentality, which seems to afflict even sensible people in retirement (e.g. George Shultz) may someday cause some of the greatest avoidable losses in modern history.

Posted by Verlaine 2009-03-10 21:01|| 2009-03-10 21:01|| Front Page Top

#9 had to be put on hold while experts scoured old records and finally figured out how to manufacture the stuff once again.

not to worry, Syrian Petty Officer Achmed, Iranian Spc. Mohammed will help under the new "knowledge-sharing" peace-dividend program "Dejuicing"

Posted by Frank G 2009-03-10 21:11|| 2009-03-10 21:11|| Front Page Top

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