Pentagon pushing smaller nukes

[Robb]

Advisers call for research on new bombs

An influential Pentagon panel is urging new and exotic conventional weapons into the traditional domain of nuclear weap-ons while pressing for a new nuclear arsenal of smaller explosive yields and "tailored" effects.

Democrats say the Defense Science Board's new report on "Future Strategic Strike Forces" cast doubt on recent assurances by the Bush administration and GOP lawmakers that their demands for new weapons are intended to exercise the creativity of U.S. nuclear-weapons scientists.

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But the Defense Science Board's report goes a step beyond the Nuclear Posture Review to recommend that the new arsenal offer "enhanced" nuclear electromagnetic pulse weapons and neutron bombs.

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"I hope they do it because that would be a huge political misstep. We fought and won a big battle over neutron bombs 25 years ago. So I would say, 'Make my day,'" Paine (Christopher Paine, a senior nuclear-weapons analyst at the Natural Resources Defense Council) said. "By all means, let's let the Bush people scare the wits out of the American people and the Europeans by making the case for new nuclear weapons."

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[arcane1]

1. "he seeks the ultimate weapons of terror"

projection is a repube specialty!

[saigon68]

5. I'm not afraid of Sadam

I'm terrified of all the crazy guys like Boykin who think God elected Bush and the infidels are worshipping Satan. They are more likely to lose it than Sadam.

[Dover]

2. ..but...but.....the contracts are already promised! The nuclear

industry is a BIG backer of the GOP, and Wolfowitz simply can't go back on a promise...that just wouldn't be prudent.

[tom_paine]

3. Looks like Armageddon is coming right on time

Can't be soon enough for the Busheviks, undoubtedly.

[donotpassgo]

4. America's WMD present a clear and gethering Danger.

We don't want to see the proof of this threat with a Mushroom Cloud over Paris. We need unlateral regime change.

[bobthedrummer]

6. Dennis Kucinich's original Space Preservation Act of 2001 HR2977

specifically mentioned "exotic weapons", "mind control", "particle beam weapons", "tectonic" weapons and lots of other language that was disappeared from the revision Space Preservation Act of 2002 HR3616.

The importance was the space basing of advanced systems with military applications, space should be weapons free but it isn't. Here is a link to HR2977's original text from a mind control website, put on your headgear-fascinating.
http://www.raven1.net/govptron.htm

[ConcernedCanuk]

10. - hmm - so who's going up there with a measuring tape ??

. . from your link -

"The term 'space' means all space extending upward from an altitude greater than 60 kilometers above the surface of the earth and any celestial body in such space"

so 59 kilometers is ok

yikes

and a (sigh)

[snippy]

7. Bush really, really, really wants to use a nuke. Always has.

People in his administration have been talking about it almost from day one.

[Vitruvius]

8. "The devil finds work for idle bombstuff";

we dismantled over 30,000 nuclear devices as a result of arms treaties with the Former Soviet Union. So there's more than 100 tons of uranium 235 & plutonium lying around for Bu$h* and his two-bit Strangeloves to use in their cockamamie schemes to lower the threshold for nuclear war.

[ConcernedCanuk]

9. Orwell was pretty close, only 20 years off, wasn't 1984, - but 2004 ???

"After the WW, the Party took control of the country, and from then on it has been difficult to remember anything, because the Party changes history constantly to their own benefit "

sound familiar ? ? - interesting read at


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