US experts debate 'mini-nukes'

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By David Bamford BBC correspondent in Washington

Defence officials in the United States say that a one-day conference on nuclear weapons is taking place at the Strategic Air Command headquarters in Nebraska.

Arms control groups say the conference is to discuss whether to build a new generation of nuclear bombs, known as "mini-nukes", capable of destroying underground bunkers.

President Bush's rival in the 2000 elections, Al Gore, has been speaking against further nuclear weapons development.

The meeting in Nebraska is taking place behind closed doors and the group of demonstrators who have turned up there are being kept well away.

A leaked Pentagon agenda indicates the defence officials and military scientists are discussing the viability of what are being called mini-nukes. ---

The Running Co$t of War In Iraq

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1. what they NEVER mention about these theoretical bunkers...

is this: What is ABOVE the ground that hides these alleged bunkers? We all remember the restaurant that was standing above an alleged Saddam bunker...


Hell, Dick Cheney is building a bunker underneath his home in a Georgetown neighborhood! I guess he's just as evil as those Iraqis who place military targets in civilian areas...


and WHY are bunkers such a big frikkin deal anyway?

[teryang]

2. Going underground substantially reduces

...the effectiveness of the aerospace fantasy of "full spectrum dominance" where lone ranger special forces call down so called precision ordnance on enemy positions like fantasy supermen.

Most potential enemies are well aware that the way to degrade American attacks is by going underground. It reduces PK values and effective radii enormously. If you dig deep enough in a hard enough base, you are almost indestructable without an assault by ground forces. Even marginally deep structures in soft earth, reduce the effectiveness of air attacks a great deal. Hardened underground fortifications are virtually invulnerable to (non nuclear) air attack.

The primary target would be the Asian countries, number one is N.Korea. The neocon defense contractor white supremecists are living in a make believe ideological world. They act as if no other nations have nukes. Even if there weren't a overt response, there will be terrible consequences to us if we use these weapons. Efforts to control weapons proliferation will be a joke. There very existence would make nuclear war more probable, by making it seem more palatable to the simple minded.