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BBC: New nuclear warhead design for US ~ Leftists appeasers are saddened...
BBC ^ | Friday, 2 March 2007, 23:15 GMT | Jamie Coomarasamy BBC News, Washington

Posted on 03/02/2007 5:40:05 PM PST by Ernest_at_the_Beach

New nuclear warhead design for US

By Jamie Coomarasamy


BBC News, Washington


A Trident missile (picture: US defence department)

The new warheads could be used in Trident missiles on submarines

The Bush administration has selected the design for America's first new nuclear warhead in nearly two decades.

US officials say the warhead will not add to the country's nuclear arsenal, but will replace existing missiles.

Critics, though, argue this sends the wrong signal at a time when the White House is leading efforts to curb Iran and North Korea's nuclear ambitions.

The chosen design was developed in a Californian laboratory and is based on a warhead already tested in the 1980s.

That will satisfy the US Congress, which signed off on the idea of a new warhead on the basis that there would not be any fresh missile tests.

Senior US officials, meanwhile, are stressing that this is not the start of a new arms race.

They say the warheads will simply replace older, less reliable ones with a safer version that is due to be operational in five years' time.



TOPICS: Extended News; Foreign Affairs; News/Current Events; War on Terror
KEYWORDS: iran; nukes
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To: PreciousLiberty

We just need to call these warheads carbon offsets.


21 posted on 03/02/2007 9:50:28 PM PST by xp38
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To: 2ndDivisionVet; grey_whiskers
Some key components have a short half life...tritium being one....
22 posted on 03/03/2007 8:36:11 AM PST by Ernest_at_the_Beach (The DemonicRATS believe ....that the best decisions are always made after the fact.)
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To: sevenbak
Well if computer simulation ...Models are good enough to accurately forecast coming climate changes....then they are good enough to predict coming nuclear happenings...../sarcasm
23 posted on 03/03/2007 8:40:42 AM PST by Ernest_at_the_Beach (The DemonicRATS believe ....that the best decisions are always made after the fact.)
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To: MrBambaLaMamba

"The US has had nuclear weapons since 1945. The fact that they have not been used to destroy..."

That's true. I'd forgotten about the Nagasaki gentrification program and the massive renovations at Hiroshima Heights.


24 posted on 03/03/2007 11:27:48 AM PST by gcruse (Having half-white Obama play the race card is like Michael Jackson playing the gender card.)
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To: gcruse

LOL!


25 posted on 03/04/2007 11:49:23 AM PST by Ernest_at_the_Beach (The DemonicRATS believe ....that the best decisions are always made after the fact.)
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