US considers new nuclear generation 60 years after first bomb

[maddezmom]

WASHINGTON (AFP) - Sixty years after the first atomic bomb was tested in the New Mexico desert, the United States still has some 2,000 nuclear weapons on hair trigger alert and is considering new weapons such as earth-penetrating bunker busters.

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But even as it moves to retire much of its Cold War arsenal, it has pressed a reluctant Congress for funds for nuclear bunker-buster studies, refurbished nuclear testing facilities, and a facility to build the plutonium triggers for new weapons.

The US Strategic Command in Omaha, Nebraska, is reported to be developing "global strike" options, including a nuclear option, against potential adversaries with nuclear weapons such as Iran and North Korea.

More than 15 years after the fall of the Berlin Wall, nuclear weapons "are alive and well," said Robert S. Norris, an expert at the Natural Resources Defense Council, an arms control and environmental advocacy group.

more:http://news.yahoo.com/s/afp/20050726/pl_afp/wwiihistorynuclearus_050726143146;_

[nine23]

1. Uh oh...Canada is the world's largest producer of uranium...

Does this mean: Bush will want to kiss and make up, discourage all that silly Canuckistan bashing from the zombie right, and make things all peachy again like the Reagan/Mulrooney era? (Despite the fact that, there won't be a conservative in office in Canada in the foreseeable future...)

Or, should I be preparing for the invasion? Mmmm...Brasil's starting to look rather inviting...