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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I prefer the US Requests Super Mullah Busting Missiles That Could Destroy Iran. PERIOD.
They are girly men with space saver spare tires on their mishapen heads!
Why to develop a new one? Ask Israelis.they have good ones.
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.
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.
The RNEP
Hummmmm Not a very acronym friendly name.
How about we call it the --- Find Underground Compounds Kill Enemies Rocket?
Let's just call it the RIP bunker buster.
We have them, they are called sub-surface burst nukes.
i will bet you dollars to donuts we already have them
lmao.
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.
Gotta love it!
iran has no idea whats waiting for them if the mullahs stay on this road.. i am hoping for a revolution ..its possible
How can this be? Every night the media is telling us we are losing!
Nukerator?
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.
What!? You don't believe folks with those particular SCI accesses
will be coming here to post classified material?
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.
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