YAY! The US has a big new H-BOMB project!!!

[meganmonkey]

Hypocrisy is on the march!!! :puke:

Lab officials excited by new H-bomb project

For the first time in more than 20 years, U.S. nuclear-weapons scientists are designing a new H-bomb, the first of probably several new nuclear explosives on the drawing boards.

If they succeed, in perhaps 20 or 25 more years, the United States would have an entirely new nuclear arsenal, and a highly automated fac- tory capable of turning out more warheads as needed, as well as new kinds of warheads.

"We are on the verge of an exciting time," the nation's top nuclear weapons executive, Linton Brooks, said last week at Lawrence Livermore weapons design laboratory.

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Designers are aiming for bombs that will be simpler, easier to maintain over decades and, if they fell into terrorists' hands, able to be remotely destroyed or rendered useless. Once the designs are unveiled in September, the Bush administration and Congress could face a major choice in the future of the U.S. arsenal: Do they keep maintaining the existing, tested weapons or begin diverting money and manpower to developing the newly designed but untested weapons?

http://www.insidebayarea.com/oaklandtribune/localnews/ci_3480733

[The_Casual_Observer]

1. That will stop those terroist cells for sure!

[GreenPartyVoter]

2. the only reason anyone could find this exciting was if there was a

definite plan to use them, rather than just use them as a deterrent. (And really, what was wrong with the old ones? Couldn't they destroy the earth enough times over for them?)

[Sparkman]

5. Upgrades must include personality modules...kinder gentler nukies.

[meganmonkey]

7. Nukies that are so sweet and gentle you could hug them

before they pulverize your nation :(

[GreenPartyVoter]

8. Sure. I've always thought HAL needed to be a reality, but why not just

include a HAL on each and every warhead?

[Sparkman]

10. If cost exceeds expectation...a nice bright yellow smiley face may suffice

[GreenPartyVoter]

11. Sure 'nuff. They can stencil "Jesus loves you" on for good measure

[HereSince1628]

3. We definitely need a fully automated bomb factory...

And an automated missle launching system so that the day after every life form on the planet is dead, US made weapons can announce victory by bouncing the rubble.

[Sparkman]

12. Any one know who wrote "TERMINATOR",robots culling rubble for humans!

[PDJane]

4. But, but, but..........

We're the good guys.

Yeah, right.

[boobooday]

6. Big 'ol spread democracy bombs

That oughta democratize a few more countries!

[meganmonkey]

9. Kick!