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$15 million for Robust Nuclear Earth Penetrator

post #1 of 12
12/1/03 at 11:04pm
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Let the jokes begin.

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November 25, 2003 -- WASHINGTON - President Bush signed a huge new defense bill that includes millions of dollars for a small nuclear bomb designed to destroy deep, hardened underground bunkers.

Among the many items tucked away in the $401 billion defense authorization act was a $15 million three-year research project by the Energy and Defense departments to create the Robust Nuclear Earth Penetrator.

The legislation repeals a decade-old ban on research into low-yield nuclear weapons.

http://www.nypost.com/news/worldnews/11763.htm
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post #2 of 12
12/1/03 at 11:22pm
If we don't build low-yield, earth penetrating, nuclear weapons, then the terrorists have already won.
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post #3 of 12
12/1/03 at 11:34pm

Re: $15 million for Robust Nuclear Earth Penetrator

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Originally posted by yt

The legislation repeals a decade-old ban on research into low-yield nuclear weapons.

http://www.nypost.com/news/worldnews/11763.htm
Sounds more like an excuse to open research into low-yield nuclear weapons. I mean really, those deep underground bunkers are designed to withstand nuclear attacks, and we are going to develop a low yield to break those bunkers? Educate me please, low yield nuclear weapons have less power or are they just more focused and radiation is more localized?
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post #4 of 12
12/1/03 at 11:44pm

Re: Re: $15 million for Robust Nuclear Earth Penetrator

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Originally posted by Gigolo Joe
Sounds more like an excuse to open research into low-yield nuclear weapons. I mean really, those deep underground bunkers are designed to withstand nuclear attacks, and we are going to develop a low yield to break those bunkers? Educate me please, low yield nuclear weapons have less power or are they just more focused and radiation is more localized?
As far as I know, nearly all bunkers, if not all, cannot withstand a direct nuclear hit. The purpose of this device is to penetrate underground and then expode, so it's closer to the bunker and therefore better at destroying it.
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post #5 of 12
12/2/03 at 11:44am
Wouldn't it be better to just have a bunker-busting casing on a MOAB or something? I see the reasoning behind getting a low yield weapon like that, but unless it is le bomb neutron, there will be too much fallout, even at super low yields.
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post #6 of 12
12/2/03 at 11:52am
And of course, the inevitable irony when said bunker penetrator technology is stolen or sold to an enemy state, and used against our own people who thought they were safe deep in their underground command centers...
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post #7 of 12
12/2/03 at 12:48pm
The aliens couldn't get us!
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post #8 of 12
12/2/03 at 1:39pm
I do like the words Robust Nuclear Penetrator though...
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post #9 of 12
12/2/03 at 2:03pm
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Originally posted by Kronos
I do like the words Robust Nuclear Penetrator though...
Is that what you ask your dates to call you?
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post #10 of 12
12/4/03 at 8:42pm
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Originally posted by Kronos
I do like the words Robust Nuclear Penetrator though...
Yes, the above is more appealing to the ear than: weapon of mass-destruction.
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post #11 of 12
12/4/03 at 8:58pm
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The defense industry knows how to appeal to Bush.
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post #12 of 12
12/4/03 at 9:22pm
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Originally posted by yt
The defense industry knows how to appeal to Bush.
No doubt such 'appeals' take place on bended knee with an open mouth...
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