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Originally posted by filtherton
How exactly is creating new nukes better? Are we going to save more lives? Hmm, sounds fishy.
Isn't backing the use of nuclear weapons sort of implicitly backing the deaths of innocents who don't affect policy? The innocents are probably going to be the ones most effected if the US arrogantly develops and employs new and uneeded nuclear weapons. Shame on you, sir, pretending to care about the innocents while expressing support for new weapons, which by their very nature, will end up killing innocents by the tens of thousands.
Besides, according to the article from FAS, "low yield" nukes as bunker busters are as grounded in actual science as the star wars defense system.
Instead of creating new WMD's for rougue nations to eventually get their hands on, the bush administration should actually try allocating some funding for new training, equipment, and protocols for the people who will end up responding to, god forbid, the next attack on american soil.
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Good post, you pointed out that innocents die in war, showed you know the needs of the US military, know the new bombs won't work, and warn that rogue nations will get these weapons (that don't work) while also complaining that the Bush admin doesn't do enough for homeland security. That’s a lot of ground in only a few sentences.
Lets try this example. Lets say some piss ant nation that was allowed to become a nuclear power thanks to the inept polices of the Clinton administration, lets pretend Korea, decided to threaten the use of nukes against the US. We for some reason decide its better to stop the launches then to give the local authorities more body bags and band aids to 'respond' to the attack. The Korean nukes are lets say in deep hardened bunkers as are the command centers. Now we could try a conventional bomb, which may not be powerful enough, resulting in the loss of say L.A., or we could nuke the crap out of the area with huge H bombs, which will need to be used enmass since they are not designed to damage below ground, or maybe we could have a smaller 'less lethal' nuclear bunker buster to remove the threat.