Should the US make new nukes? |
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Should the US make new nukes? |
*mipadi* |
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QUOTE Labs Compete to Make New Nuclear Bomb The Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory in the San Francisco Bay area and the Los Alamos National Laboratory in New Mexico are competing to design the nation's first new nuclear bomb in two decades. Scientists at both facilities are working around the clock on plans that will be presented to the Nuclear Weapons Council, a federal panel that oversees the nation's nuclear weapons. The council will choose a winner later this year. "I have had people working nights and weekends," said Joseph Martz, the head of the Los Alamos design team. "I have to tell them to go home. I can't keep them out of the office." Congress approved the new bomb, known as the reliable replacement warhead, with bipartisan support in 2005 as part of a defense spending bill. The weapon would, by law, have the same explosive power as existing warheads. Proponents of the project say the U.S. would lose its so-called "strategic deterrent" unless it replaces its aging arsenal of about 6,000 bombs, which will become potentially unreliable within 15 years. A new, more reliable weapon, they say, would help the nation reduce its stockpile. Critics say the project could trigger a new arms race with Russia and China, and undercut arguments that countries such as Iran and North Korea must stop their nuclear programs. The United States and Russia signed a treaty in 2002 calling for the countries to each cut nuclear inventories to between 1,700 and 2,200 warheads by 2012. Source Should the US invest in new nuclear weapons, or could this possible trigger a new arms war with Russia and/or China? |
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......... so ?
we have the checks and balance crap. one can override the president's decisions. we have representatives, senate .. and etc. |
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......... so ? we have the checks and balance crap. one can override the president's decisions. we have representatives, senate .. and etc. And that doesnt stop them from bombing us.What the hell can balance checks do to help us from being bombed.If they bomb us this whole world dies because of the chemicals will travel in the wind. |
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![]() lackadaisical ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() Group: Member Posts: 203 Joined: Mar 2005 Member No: 113,463 ![]() |
And that doesnt stop them from bombing us.What the hell can balance checks do to help us from being bombed.If they bomb us this whole world dies because of the chemicals will travel in the wind. Wind? Do you mean radiation or something? Are you saying that if they bomb the U.S. that it will eventually kill the world? Hey, they bombed Japan and the rest of us aren't dead. |
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![]() ||Leon/Silent W[hisper]|| Anime Freak ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() Group: Member Posts: 152 Joined: Oct 2005 Member No: 257,387 ![]() |
Wind? Do you mean radiation or something? Are you saying that if they bomb the U.S. that it will eventually kill the world? Hey, they bombed Japan and the rest of us aren't dead. Thats because it wasnt a nuke. QUOTE one nuke wont destroy the world now if we blasted every single nukes from a single boomer then the world could be destroy. forgot how many we have around the world Please dont tell me that,im scared off my a$$ that korea will bomb us and i really really hope not........but anyway one nuke can destroy the world because of the radiation and the chemicals will pollute the water,and our needed sources and it will kill us slowly.For now all america can do is pray that it wont happen. |
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Thats because it wasnt a nuke. A "nuke" is a colloquial term for any nuclear weapon. The atomic bombs dropped on Japan, then, are considered to be "nukes". Please dont tell me that,im scared off my a$$ that korea will bomb us and i really really hope not........but anyway one nuke can destroy the world because of the radiation and the chemicals will pollute the water,and our needed sources and it will kill us slowly.For now all america can do is pray that it wont happen. A single nuke would not destroy the world, nor cause most of the world to come to great harm. Radiation would kill people in a certain area and poison other life forms in a nearby area, and could cause some trouble over a greater distance depending on weather conditions, but it would not destroy the world or even all life on Earth. |
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