How Bush Learned To Love the Bomb

[seemslikeadream]

By Leigh Flayton in Mercury, Nevada

United States President George W. Bush is talking tough about nukes in Iran and North Korea. But critics say by illegally testing and building nuclear weapons, the U.S. is fueling a new arms race.

A former nuclear testing site north of Las Vegas, Nevada.
In a barren stretch of Nevada desert 85 miles northwest of Las Vegas, a large modular tower and a steel crane, once used for testing nuclear bombs, stand in plain view of anyone passing through the area known to the U.S. government as U6c. They are easily detected by satellites orbiting overhead. Later this year, scientists at the Nevada Test Site will use the structures to conduct an experiment called Unicorn, which will help determine whether the site is prepared to resume full-scale nuclear tests if ordered to do so by the president. Unicorn, which works with plutonium and high explosives, will resemble an old-fashioned underground nuclear test from the Cold War era, when bombs were placed in towers aboveground and lowered beneath the surface by custom-built cranes.

In recent weeks, the Bush administration has focused the world's attention on stopping the proliferation of nuclear weapons. During his trip to Europe in February, President Bush spoke with urgency about shutting down Iran's nuclear program and securing Russia's aging post-Soviet stockpile. North Korea's declaration last month that it already possesses a handful of nuclear warheads has raised new concerns about tensions in Asia. And most security experts agree that nonproliferation is now critical to stopping the worst nightmare scenario: A terrorist attack on a major city using radioactive material.

Nuclear watchdogs in U.S., however, warn that the Bush administration is fueling a new arms race. They contend the government is violating the Nuclear Non-Proliferation Treaty, the 1970 international agreement that states that countries with nuclear weapons must work toward disarmament. The Bush administration, they charge, is pouring money into new nuclear weapons programs and performing nuclear tests, spurring other nations to do the same.

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[dbeach]

1. The CI.C. [Criminal in Chief} talks tuff and is a mean chikenhawk..

The NG deserter who sends others to die for his war profits is
repeating a family history back to Sam Bush of war profiteering at the expense of the US taxpayers and incresing their powerful dynasty.

Bush..bush sr. cheney.. rummy ..condo near that red button is the anxiety of my lifetime...

Bush crime family syndicate = working to keep the world unsafe and intelligent minds living with fear...

[leftchick]

2. Excellent article SLaD!

as usual! thanks! We know the BFEE WANTS an arms race. This is how they make money. I hope the rest of the world figures it out.

[seemslikeadream]

4. He who is silent is assumed to consent.

:hi:
Thanks leftchick, it is your words that haunt me daily. :evilgrin:

[gordianot]

3. They want a new class of weapons.

Gamma radiation. See link:

http://www.guardian.co.uk/usa/story/0,12271,1018361,00.html

Sheer stupidity, not exactly a nuclear weapon.