U.S. Plan for New Nuclear Weapons Advances

[Donnachaidh]

The United States took another step yesterday toward building a new stockpile of up to 2,200 deployed nuclear weapons that would last well into the 21st century, announcing the start of a multiyear process to repair and replace facilities where they would be developed and assembled and where older warheads could be more rapidly dismantled.




http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2006/10/19/AR2006101901863.html

[2Design]

1. where are the un sanctions? n/t

[mazzarro]

2. Yes indeed!

So some nations have the divine right to build any and all types nuclear WMD they want whilst others are ssupposed to be too dumb/backward and too unstable and too untrustworthy to be allowed even the crudest nuclear weapon for their defense.
Yet it is the same dumb/backward nations that are constantly being ravaged by corporations based in the powerful nations; it is the same dumb/backward nations that are constantly being threatened with invasion by the powerful nuclear weaponed nations. And the UN does nothing but accedes to every dictum of the powerful nations to punish the weakling.

International geopolitics is nothing but a bunch bull****!

[OneBlueSky]

16. the only dumb/backward nation I know of to have ever used . . .

nuclear weapons is our very own United States . . .

and now we want more and better ones . . . under the control of George W. Bush, Dick Cheney, and Donald Rumsfeld . . .

anyone else worried? . . .

[enigma000]

3. This sounds odd but,

I guess you want to make sure your nukes are in good working order. I wonder what the shelf life for a standard bomb is.

[BadgerKid]

8. Heard of supercomputers?

The national labs do calculations that try to estimate just that.

[struggle4progress]

10. As an NPT signatory, we're supposed to be gettin rid of our stockpiles

[Coventina]

4. Hypocrisy, thy name is America.

"Do as we say, not as we do."

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on edit: Coventina kant spel

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[Supersedeas]

5. Nothing to see here....move right along

[Quantess]

6. Awesome!

:sarcasm: Why am I not surprised?

[daleo]

7. Roughly doubling capacity.

"The production of plutonium triggers for current weapons, called pits, would remain limited at about 50 per year. Under the Bush plan, the new plutonium center could produce 125 pits a year, a number D'Agostino said would satisfy current planning for the 2,200 RRW stockpile of the future."

[sarcasmo]

9. It's a OK for the big bully at the school yard.

Kick and Nom for the Hypocrisy

[Psephos]

11. Real world analysis:

The U.S. is gonna have nukes. I see no chance that won't be true for the forseeable future.

So the question is, should those nukes be old and falling apart, or new and reliable?

We would be better off focusing on keeping the number in the U.S. arsenal as low as possible. This is where political pressure can actually be quite useful.

Peace.

[IndianaGreen]

12. Who is the enemy? The Cylons?

Bush gets an erection everytime he thinks about using nukes.

[bemildred]

13. I plan to have psychedelic pigs fly out of my ass.

Is it OK to point out that this IS the 21st century? We are already "well into" it. I am all in favor of well-maintained nukes, but this is boogie-man crap.

[w4rma]

14. We don't need more nukes. We only need enough for deterence.

If we end up using a nuke then our world is ending with the retaliation.

[Gregorian]

15. I see trees of green, red roses too

I see them bloom for me and you
And I think to myself, what a wonderful world

I see skies of blue and clouds of white
The bright blessed day, the dark sacred night
And I think to myself, what a wonderful world

The colours of the rainbow, so pretty in the sky
Are also on the faces of people going by
I see friends shakin' hands, sayin' "How do you do?"
They're really saying "I love you"

I hear babies cryin', I watch them grow
They'll learn much more than I'll ever know
And I think to myself, what a wonderful world
Yes, I think to myself, what a wonderful world

Oh yeah



Edit- I shed a tear.