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US Requests Super Bunker Busting Missiles That Could Destroy Iran's Nuke Sites
Geostrategy Direct ^ | March 1, 2005 | complied by Bill Gertz

Posted on 03/01/2005 7:40:13 AM PST by gopwinsin04

The United States wants to develop the capability to destroy Iran's nuclear facilities with air strikes.

Officials said that the need for US capabilty to destroy underground nuclear facilites has spurred the renewal of the effort to create the so-called 'super bunker busters.'

Defense Secretary Donald Rumsfeld, issued the request for the weapon, termed the Robust Nuclear Earth Penetrator, in a letter sent to then Energy Secretary Spencer Abraham in January.

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TOPICS: Extended News; Government; Israel; News/Current Events; US: District of Columbia; War on Terror
KEYWORDS: billgertz; bunkerbuster; irannukes; miltech; mininukes; napalminthemorning
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To: gopwinsin04

I prefer the US Requests Super Mullah Busting Missiles That Could Destroy Iran. PERIOD.


21 posted on 03/01/2005 8:06:36 AM PST by finnman69 (cum puella incedit minore medio corpore sub quo manifestus globus, inflammare animos)
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To: Enterprise

They are girly men with space saver spare tires on their mishapen heads!


22 posted on 03/01/2005 8:06:41 AM PST by sheik yerbouty
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To: Enterprise

Why to develop a new one? Ask Israelis.they have good ones.


23 posted on 03/01/2005 8:07:38 AM PST by QQQQ
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To: finnman69

24 posted on 03/01/2005 8:07:45 AM PST by gopwinsin04
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To: Grampa Dave

I'm not sure these can come on line fast enough. I think there are tech problems still to be solved and a period of years may be too long to wait. Also, the use of these will not be so simple. This would be the first nuclear attack since WWII.


25 posted on 03/01/2005 8:09:32 AM PST by Williams
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To: Williams

The mere fact that Rummy has requested these will have an impact.

Also, we have no idea of where our research is re bombs like this.


26 posted on 03/01/2005 8:12:31 AM PST by Grampa Dave (The MSM has been a WMD, Weapon of Mass Disinformation for the Rats for at least 4 decades.)
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To: gopwinsin04; Mo1; Howlin; Peach; BeforeISleep; kimmie7; 4integrity; BigSkyFreeper; RandallFlagg; ...
the Robust Nuclear Earth Penetrator

The RNEP

Hummmmm Not a very acronym friendly name.

How about we call it the --- Find Underground Compounds Kill Enemies Rocket?

27 posted on 03/01/2005 8:14:22 AM PST by OXENinFLA
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To: OXENinFLA

Let's just call it the RIP bunker buster.


28 posted on 03/01/2005 8:19:16 AM PST by Peach (The Clintons pardoned more terrorists than they ever captured or killed.)
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To: gopwinsin04
The United States wants to develop the capability to destroy Iran's nuclear facilities with air strikes.

We have them, they are called sub-surface burst nukes.

29 posted on 03/01/2005 8:20:40 AM PST by Centurion2000 (Nations do not survive by setting examples for others. Nations survive by making examples of others)
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To: Grampa Dave

i will bet you dollars to donuts we already have them


30 posted on 03/01/2005 8:21:58 AM PST by kingattax
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To: OXENinFLA

lmao.


31 posted on 03/01/2005 8:22:33 AM PST by gopwinsin04
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To: kingattax

I would not want to bet a single old Krispy Kreme against your $'s on this bet.

The dictators of the world with nuclear weapons or nuclear weapon research don't know either.


32 posted on 03/01/2005 8:23:48 AM PST by Grampa Dave (The MSM has been a WMD, Weapon of Mass Disinformation for the Rats for at least 4 decades.)
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To: gopwinsin04
Just when the media tells us the Mullahs have us backed into a corner, the remarkable leadership of this country exercises an incremental increase in the 'ol justice factor.

Gotta love it!

33 posted on 03/01/2005 8:25:28 AM PST by GVnana (If I had a Buckhead moment would I know it?)
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To: Grampa Dave

iran has no idea whats waiting for them if the mullahs stay on this road.. i am hoping for a revolution ..its possible


34 posted on 03/01/2005 8:26:56 AM PST by kingattax
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To: GVgirl

How can this be? Every night the media is telling us we are losing!


35 posted on 03/01/2005 8:29:36 AM PST by gopwinsin04
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To: OXENinFLA

Nukerator?


36 posted on 03/01/2005 8:29:58 AM PST by GVnana (If I had a Buckhead moment would I know it?)
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To: kingattax

Hopefully, we see a revolution by the good people of Iran.

If the Mullahs were smart, they would fly to Paris or Moscow and ask for asylum, and leave Iran to the good Persian.


37 posted on 03/01/2005 8:30:02 AM PST by Grampa Dave (The MSM has been a WMD, Weapon of Mass Disinformation for the Rats for at least 4 decades.)
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To: Grampa Dave
we have no idea of where our research is

What!? You don't believe folks with those particular SCI accesses
will be coming here to post classified material?

38 posted on 03/01/2005 8:32:11 AM PST by ASA Vet (Those who know, don't talk. Those who talk, don't know.)
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To: iopscusa
Better late than never...

Blame Congress for that one, they shelved the program last year...this is not a new request, it is a resurrection of an old request...and apparently is not breaking news either, considering the date of the following article:

Feb 08, 2005 - The Bush administration is trying to resurrect a controversial study into whether a nuclear weapon could be designed to burrow deep into the earth and destroy underground bunkers.

Congress killed the study last year, partly out of concern that it undercut U.S. efforts to curb other countries' development of nuclear weapons.

Under the administration's proposed 2006 federal budget, the Department of Energy would spend $4 million on the so-called Robust Nuclear Earth Penetrator study, while the Department of Defense would contribute $4.5 million.

The Energy Department, the builder and caretaker of the nation's nuclear arsenal, would spend $14 million more in 2007, the final year of the study, while the Defense Department would spend $3.5 million, according to budget documents and officials.

While the amounts are small compared with proposed overall defense spending in 2006 of about $440 billion, which includes the Department of Energy's nuclear weapons budget, the attempt to restart the study could ignite a bruising fight with Congress.

''Congress clearly rejected the Bush administration's request for bunker busters and other nuclear weapons last year,'' said Rep. Edward Markey, D-Mass., a leading critic of the study, which started in May 2003.

Miami Herald


39 posted on 03/01/2005 8:33:34 AM PST by ravingnutter
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To: OXENinFLA
Super Bunker Busting Missiles = MOARR = Mother of all Roto Rooters
40 posted on 03/01/2005 8:33:52 AM PST by TexKat (Just because you did not see it or read it, that does not mean it did or did not happen.)
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