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U.S. Redesigning Atomic Weapons
New York Times
| 2/7/05
| WILLIAM J. BROAD
Posted on 02/06/2005 6:35:19 PM PST by wagglebee
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Worried that the nation's aging nuclear arsenal is increasingly fragile, American scientists have begun designing a new generation of nuclear arms meant to be sturdier and more reliable and to have longer lives Of course the New York Slimes fails to mention that their pal BJ Klintoon did absolutely nothing to maintain our vital weapons programs.
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posted on
02/06/2005 6:35:20 PM PST
by
wagglebee
To: wagglebee
No! He outsourced that job to China.
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posted on
02/06/2005 6:40:38 PM PST
by
dgallo51
(DEMAND IMMEDIATE, OPEN INVESTIGATIONS OF U.S. COMPLICITY IN RWANDAN GENOCIDE!)
To: dgallo51
Oh yeah, how dumb of me -- Klintoon put his Chicom comrades in charge of our nuclear program.
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posted on
02/06/2005 6:42:40 PM PST
by
wagglebee
("We are ready for the greatest achievements in the history of freedom." -- President Bush, 1/20/05)
To: wagglebee
Some critics say checking the reliability of the new designs is likely to require underground testing, violating the ban and inviting other nations to do the same, thereby endangering American security.
Am I the only one here who wonders whether these unnamed "critics" really exist?
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posted on
02/06/2005 6:43:04 PM PST
by
Logophile
To: wagglebee
I'm betting that this is a subtle way of saying that everybody has our designs so we are starting over with better security this time.
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posted on
02/06/2005 6:43:55 PM PST
by
Thebaddog
(Dawgs off the coffee table.)
To: wagglebee
If Kerry had won and the leftist dims had their way America would have been disarmed by the slow corrosion of our nuke arsenal....unilateral disarmament by neglect.
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posted on
02/06/2005 6:44:03 PM PST
by
darth
To: Logophile
The author probably took lessons from Jayson Blair.
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posted on
02/06/2005 6:45:22 PM PST
by
wagglebee
("We are ready for the greatest achievements in the history of freedom." -- President Bush, 1/20/05)
To: wagglebee
Asked about a possible attack by the United States or Israel, which have both said a nuclear-armed Iran would be unacceptable, Rohani said: "If such an attack (against Iran's atomic facilities) takes place then of course we will retaliate and we will definitely accelerate our activities to complete our (nuclear) fuel cycle." Speaking in a rare interview, Rohani said Iran's ability to produce its own nuclear parts had made it "invulnerable" to attack since it could simply rebuild whatever was destroyed.
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02/06/2005 6:45:52 PM PST
by
granite
(WHY ARE WE IN IRAQ?)
To: wagglebee
But critics say it could needlessly resuscitate the complex of factories and laboratories that make nuclear weapons and could possibly ignite a new arms race.
Screw the critics, they don't know s--t from shinola, and in that same spirit, maybe they could explain just WHO they think is going to engage in a 'new arms race' with the United States? Who has the military industrial base to do this effectively and actually compete with us?
As for spending only 9 million on modernization of our nuclear arsenal? Holy smokes, make it 9 BILLION and do it all, and do it right!
To: darth
Correction:
If sKerry had won, our entire nuclear arsenal would have been put under the control of Kofi Annan and the UN at 12:01PM on January 20, 2005.
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posted on
02/06/2005 6:46:53 PM PST
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wagglebee
("We are ready for the greatest achievements in the history of freedom." -- President Bush, 1/20/05)
To: wagglebee
got news for the critics: there already IS a new arms race going.
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posted on
02/06/2005 6:50:31 PM PST
by
King Prout
(Remember John Adam!)
To: wagglebee
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02/06/2005 7:10:51 PM PST
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BCrago66
To: BCrago66
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posted on
02/06/2005 7:12:17 PM PST
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wagglebee
("We are ready for the greatest achievements in the history of freedom." -- President Bush, 1/20/05)
To: wagglebee
TEHRAN (Reuters) - "But I do not think the United States itself will take such a risk ... They know our capabilities for retaliating against such attacks," the mid-ranking cleric added. |
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posted on
02/06/2005 7:25:35 PM PST
by
granite
(WHY ARE WE IN IRAQ?)
To: granite
I wonder what sort of things the Japanese leadership was saying during the summer of 1945.
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posted on
02/06/2005 7:29:07 PM PST
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wagglebee
("We are ready for the greatest achievements in the history of freedom." -- President Bush, 1/20/05)
To: wagglebee; MeekOneGOP; PhilDragoo; Happy2BMe; potlatch; ntnychik; Smartass; Chieftain; ...
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02/06/2005 7:31:19 PM PST
by
devolve
( WWII-TRIBUTE: http://pro.lookingat.us/WhiteCliffs.html http://pro.lookingat.us/GBU.html)
To: wagglebee
You mean Poor old Slim Pickens coulda been riding a dud?
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posted on
02/06/2005 7:31:53 PM PST
by
mad_as_he$$
(Never corner anything meaner than you. NSDQ)
To: wagglebee
[Experts say a costly federal program to assess and maintain their health cannot ultimately confirm their reliability because a global test ban forbids underground test detonations.]
I can think of another way to test them.
To: wagglebee
"...critics say it could needlessly resuscitate the complex of factories and laboratories that make nuclear weapons and could possibly ignite a new arms race."Between us and who?
Cuba?
Canuckistan?
Ireland?
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posted on
02/06/2005 8:02:08 PM PST
by
Redbob
To: wagglebee
So the expected lifetime was 15 years, and most of them are older than 20 years. Should I be more worried than I am? I was under the assumption they are indeed quite old, but will still do the job if asked.
Question: This expected 15 year lifespan, is this in reference to the wear and aging of the overall mechanicl and electronic components of the weapon, or the nuclear decay of the isotopes cores themselves? (i.e. the Pu-241 pits, etc?)
Is there a chance our weapons may fizzle if used due to the fact that the core metals have decayed into other elements, or will we just get a much lower yield?
Any experts out there?
Bones
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posted on
02/06/2005 8:05:08 PM PST
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Bones75
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