October 27, 2005
Nukes in the News: Bush Administration Drops ‘Bunker Buster’ Plan
Plan will now focus on a similar device using nonnuclear technology
story | AP
>maybe related on Spitting Image:
NOTW item & link to article on Nanometal Explosives
~With earth imaging e.g. ground penetrating radar, gps-guided smarter bombs and nanometal explosives, America may never need to build another nuclear weapon. Begging the question, will the Bushies allow the thousands of nuclear weapons from the Cold War years that now need refurbishing to simply be carted to the Yucca Mountain 'landfill'?
Or will they need their nukes and their smartest bombs too?
[illus via @\ not AP]