Pentagon Wants New Generation Of Smaller Cheaper Nukes

[kalian]

http://www.spacedaily.com/news/nuclear-doctrine-04b.html

The Pentagon insists the weapon is needed.

"Underground facilities are proliferating throughout the world," said Linton Brooks, the director of the Energy Department's National Nuclear Security Administration, at a meeting with reporters Thursday. "Generic dictators are only deterred by (the United States) holding what they value at risk. They tend not to value their population but their instruments of power."

Those instruments of power are likely to be hidden deep underground where a conventional military assault can't reach them.

"We want to make it absolutely clear he doesn't have any invulnerable sanctuary," Brooks said.

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I wonder whether this also applies to Cheney's underground bunker
under the VP residence...?