[ RadSafe ] Re: The RNEP (Bunker Buster)

[jjcohen]

----- Original Message -----
From: John Jacobus <crispy_bird at yahoo.com>
To: radsafe <radsafe at radlab.nl>; <know_nukes at yahoogroups.com>
Sent: Wednesday, March 23, 2005 1:53 PM
Subject: [ RadSafe ] Debate Resumes on Administration's Nuclear
WeaponsInitiatives


The RNEP looks like another one of those hopeless projects
that the Congress loves to squander taxpayers money on.
The RNEP is a dumb idea - not because it wouldn't be a
useful weapon, but because it won't work!
For designing weapons, sound physics is
preferable to wishful thinking.

Jerry Cohen


> FYI
> The American Institute of Physics Bulletin of Science
> Policy News Number 37: March 23, 2005
>
> Debate Resumes on Administration's Nuclear Weapons
> Initiatives
>
> It will be "a hugely difficult decision" Ambassador
> Linton F. Brooks told members of the House Strategic
> Forces Subcommittee at a hearing earlier this month
> when he discussed the decision a President would make
> about the use of a Robust Nuclear Earth Penetrator
> (RNEP), more commonly known as a Bunker Buster.  While
> Brooks' comment centered on the use of RNEP after it
> was deployed, it also describes the decisions Congress
> will make this year about funding several Bush
> Administration nuclear weapons initiatives.