Darnit. I thought the hearing had just started. It was just ending.

[helderheid]

Divine Strake:



http://www.google.com/search?hl=en&q=divine+strake&btnG=Google+Search

http://www.npr.org/templates/story/story.php?storyId=6906851

Pentagon to Test Bunker-Busting Superbomb


All Things Considered, April 28, 2006 · The Pentagon has labeled it "Divine Strake," the detonation in the Nevada desert of a record-setting superbomb. The official line is that this is the test of a new bunker-busting weapon. But weighing in at 700 tons, the bomb cannot be delivered by any existing planes or missiles, experts say.

Insiders believe the test is actually meant to simulate the effects of a tactical nuclear weapon on underground tunnels, as a prelude for the Defense Department making a case to Congress for developing a new line of nuclear weapons to penetrate entrenched sites, such as those in North Korea and, it is believed, Iran.

The project is being conducted by the Defense Threat Reduction Agency, which says the tests will be used to enhance existing computer modeling to help design future munitions. On the agency's Web site, it explains that as governments construct command operations that may include weapons of mass destruction, "The U.S. military must be able to defeat hard and deeply buried targets in order to deny an adversary the ability to use these facilities against us."

[Sydnie]

1. Kick n/t

[helderheid]

2. Thanks! I've added some background info to the OP

[az chela]

3. Hey this is a friend of Stella's

you can ask her if you want,I was wondering if you have a site for the bags and shirts you make.That bag is f-------ing awseome

[helderheid]

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[az chela]

7. thanks I am going to go look at the site

[az chela]

8. I am ordering a bag and a stein,does the bag only come in yellow???

[helderheid]

10. NO! Go here:

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or

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or

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:hi:

[BleedingHeartPatriot]

4. "The project is being conducted by the Defense Threat Reduction Agency"

A new one. MKJ

[MannyGoldstein]

5. 700 Tons?

Holy crap! That's 1.5 million pounds!

Maybe if there are underground bunkers on the beach we could have a large boat deliver it?

[helderheid]

11. 1.5 million pounds... how they gonna drop that bomb? 2+2 = ... ??

[stellanoir]

9. OMG

this is bull

K & R 'd

[GreenZoneLT]

12. Kinda musty, no?

Story's from April. It's not like they're hiding anything; this is a conventional test to find the effects of a small nuke, of course. Cheney's been openly pushing for mini-nuke bunker busters for years, as have a number of Air Force types.

They're not stupid enough to try to fool people into thinking they're actually planning a 700-ton bomb. It's not "insiders" who think it's a test for a nuke. Everyone with a working brain thinks that.

Who wrote that story, Obviousman? "But weighing in at 700 tons, the bomb cannot be delivered by any existing planes or missiles, experts say." Heck, I had that kind of "expertise" in sixth grade. There aren't any missiles or planes that can deliver a 70-ton warhead, either, and most can't deliver a 7-ton one.

It's interesting, and certainly worth debating the idea of using tactical nukes against weapons facilities and underground bunkers (and re-opening the nuclear Pandora's box), but a lot of the reaction here is as if you've uncovered a plot.