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Re: John Titor Debate!
" US Capital will be moved to Omaha, Nebraska" - John Titor
US still pursuing nuclear options 60 years after first bomb
WASHINGTON (AFP) - Sixty years after the first atomic bomb was tested in the New Mexico desert, the United States still has some 2,000 nuclear weapons on hair trigger alert and is considering new weapons such as earth-penetrating bunker busters.
But even as it moves to retire much of its Cold War arsenal, it has pressed a reluctant Congress for funds for nuclear bunker-buster studies, refurbished nuclear testing facilities, and a facility to build the plutonium triggers for new weapons.
The US Strategic Command in Omaha, Nebraska, is reported to be developing "global strike" options, including a nuclear option, against potential adversaries with nuclear weapons such as Iran and North Korea.
more:http://news.yahoo.com/news?tmpl=story&u=/a.../afp/20050714/p...
" US Capital will be moved to Omaha, Nebraska" - John Titor
US still pursuing nuclear options 60 years after first bomb
WASHINGTON (AFP) - Sixty years after the first atomic bomb was tested in the New Mexico desert, the United States still has some 2,000 nuclear weapons on hair trigger alert and is considering new weapons such as earth-penetrating bunker busters.
But even as it moves to retire much of its Cold War arsenal, it has pressed a reluctant Congress for funds for nuclear bunker-buster studies, refurbished nuclear testing facilities, and a facility to build the plutonium triggers for new weapons.
The US Strategic Command in Omaha, Nebraska, is reported to be developing "global strike" options, including a nuclear option, against potential adversaries with nuclear weapons such as Iran and North Korea.
more:http://news.yahoo.com/news?tmpl=story&u=/a.../afp/20050714/p...