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Mickey Z
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Monday, February 14, 2005
We're all downwinders...
This past week, the New York Times reported: “In late November, Congress approved a small, largely unnoticed budget item that started the new design effort, known as the Reliable Replacement Warhead program. Federal officials say the designs could eventually help recast the nuclear arsenal with warheads that are more rugged and have much longer lifetimes.”
“Instead of the small, mini-nuke feared by anti-nuke activists, these weapons designers are moving in the opposite direction,” explains Jeffrey St. Clair at Counterpunch (http://www.counterpunch.com/stclair02092005.html). “These new nukes are likely to be bigger, bulkier and many times more potent than the current generation of weapons. Once the project gets rolling, it nearly impossible to turn off the flow of money. For one thing, the beneficiaries of these doomsday funds will soon extend beyond the weapons labs and to defense contractors, the most omnipotent lobby on the Hill. That’s because the new heavier warheads will need a new generation of rockets to launch them on their path of annihilation. Here’s where Lockheed and Boeing enter the picture.”
Stop me if you’ve heard it all before…
What intrigued me was the Times’ reference to “much longer lifetimes.” Are we supposed to be reassured by that?
Here’s something I wrote in 2001 about the “lifetime” of the nuke technology we already have:
http://www.disinfo.com/archive/pages/article/id948/pg1/
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