Article: Nuclear Bunker Busters, Mini-Nukes, and the US Nuclear Stockpile

[John Jacobus <crispy_bird@YAHOO.COM>]

The following article appeared in the November 2003

issue of Physics Today



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Nuclear Bunker Busters, Mini-Nukes, and the US Nuclear

Stockpile



The Bush administration is contemplating a new crop of

nuclear weapons that could reduce the threat to

civilian populations. However, they're still unlikely

to work without producing massive radioactive fallout,

and their development might require a return to

underground nuclear testing.



Robert W. Nelson



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http://www.physicstoday.org/vol-56/iss-11/p32.html



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"One test result is worth one thousand expert opinions."

Wernher von Braun



-- John

John Jacobus, MS

Certified Health Physicist

e-mail:  crispy_bird@yahoo.com



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