[ RadSafe ] Re: The RNEP (Bunker Buster)

[John Jacobus]

I would note that this is the Administration's
project, not Congress'.   Unfortunately, few
Congressmen want to look "soft" on terrorism, as being
anti-military, etc.  I believe that Congress voted
against spending last year.  With the deficit and debt
climbing, I hope they oppose it again.  

For a good background study, see
http://www.aip.org/pt/vol-56/iss-11/p32.html

 
--- jjcohen <jjcohen at prodigy.net> wrote:
> 
> ----- 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.
> 
> 


+++++++++++++++++++
"Embarrassed, obscure and feeble sentences are generally, if not always, the result of embarrassed, obscure and feeble thought."
Hugh Blair, 1783

-- John
John Jacobus, MS
Certified Health Physicist
e-mail:  crispy_bird at yahoo.com

__________________________________________________
Do You Yahoo!?
Tired of spam?  Yahoo! Mail has the best spam protection around 
http://mail.yahoo.com