http://www.nzherald.co.nz/storydisplay.cfm?storyID=3572877&thesection=news&thesubsection=worldThe United States Senate on Tuesday backed the Bush administration's plan to study a new generation of low-yield and earth-penetrating nuclear weapons, rejecting concerns that the research could spur an arms race.
Voting 55-42, the Senate defeated an amendment pushed by Democrats to slash US$36.6 million ($59.4 million) to study so-called bunker-busting nuclear weapons that would be used to destroy underground facilities as well as smaller nuclear arms with half the yield of the bomb dropped on Hiroshima.
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"This country ought to be leading in exactly the other direction," said Senator Byron Dorgan of North Dakota.
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nuclear weapons are obscene
if any Dem. Senators voted for this then they are obscene too.