Building more nukes now will give us less nukes in the future?

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Nuke redevelopment plan a boon for Livermore Lab

http://www.insidebayarea.com/oaklandtribune/localnews/ci_3683813

The Bush administration's presentation Wednesday of a blueprint for a http://www.democraticunderground.com/discuss/duboard.php?az=view_all&address=364x858816">new, redesigned nuclear arsenal and a smaller, more modern nuclear weapons complex caps more than a year of talks with federal lawmakers and the weapons sites they represent.

Along the way, a key California congresswoman dropped her objections to taking weapons plutonium out of Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory. U.S. Rep. Ellen Tauscher (D) also eased her skepticism about the design of new, age-resistant H-bombs called "reliable replacement warheads," or RRW, in the hope that they lead to a smaller nuclear arsenal and a global ban on nuclear testing.

"Like everything else, RRW on the face of it sounds very promising," Tauscher, D-Alamo, said Thursday.

For Tauscher, it was a "win-win: a win for the community to move what is by the way a de minimus amount of materials and a win for the lab in that there would be no diminishment for the lab in the (weapons) complex and the mission."


Build "new, age-resistant H-bombs called "reliable replacement warheads . . . in the hope that they lead to a smaller nuclear arsenal and a global ban on nuclear testing."

Orwellian deception. The diminishment argument is nonsense as we already have enough weapons to blow us all to the next universe. Smaller arsenal? Smaller bombs. More justifications for their use with along with false science about their limited impact on innocent civilians and surrounding countries.

Screw the world balance, just get this stuff out of my neighborhood, says Tauscher. Unfortunately the government has no intention, permission, or means to move the materials out of Livermore anytime soon. If this deal goes down there will have to be a transport agreement attached, though. That, and the issue of the feasibility of the Yucca site should keep this bottled up for a while. But, it's compromises like this one that make me wonder how much of a wall there is between our objections and their ambitions. We need more activism on this.

my article yesterday:
http://www.opednews.com/articles/opedne_ron_full_060406_strange_how_this_gen.htm

[Beelzebud]

1. War is peace!

Freedom is Slavery

Ignorance is Strength

[Viva_La_Revolution]

2. up is down

right is wrong


Oceana has Always has been at War with Eurasia - or is it Eastasia this week?

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3. two-plus-two

equals five