'Dr Strangeloves' meet to plan new nuclear era

[dArKeR]

US government scientists and Pentagon officials will gather today behind tight security at a Nebraska air force base to discuss the development of a modernised arsenal of small, specialised nuclear weapons which critics believe could mark the dawn of a new era in proliferation.

The Pentagon has not released a list of the 150 people at the secret meeting, but according to leaks, they will include scientists and administrators from the three main nuclear weapons laboratories, Los Alamos, Sandia and Livermore, senior officers from the air force and strategic command, weapons contractors and civilian defence officials.

Requests by Congress to send observers were rejected, and an oversight committee which included academic nuclear experts was disbanded only a few weeks earlier.

The purpose of the meeting, at Offutt air force base

http://www.mg.co.za/Content/l3.asp?ao=18435

Offutt, the place Bush went on 9/11. The place, 9/11, America's top CEOs just happen to be Offutt, a top secrect base. Where's the investigation?

http://darker0darker.tripod.com/

[disgruntella]

1. strangelove connection

Interesting... from the article

"The lushly-landscaped base, where the grey shell of a B-52 bomber has been mounted behind a screen of fruit trees, sits atop a labyrinth of high-tech bunkers from where strategic command is poised, 24 hours a day, to fight a nuclear war. It inspired the setting for the 1964 film Dr Strangelove."

Offut is the HQ for the U.S. Strategic Command:
http://www.stratcom.af.mil/

Sounds like the ones invited to the meeting were pretty handpicked...

[FlashHarry]

2. I live near there. We actually had a 'no nukes' rally on Sunday

Which, for Omaha, is amazing.

[dArKeR]

3. Keep up the good work!

[damnraddem]

4. Offutt, the place where many similar confabs have occurred ...

over the years since 1945. And very-small bombs have existed for over four decades. They just want to develop new ones. The thing is, the very-small bombs are the most dangerous: (1) most susceptible to capture and use by terrorists; (2) most likely to be labelled 'tactical,' so lower the threshhold to use; and (3) most likely to be claimed 'acceptable' to use, so lower the threshhold.

[0007]

5. This is how one curbs terrorism?

Sounds like we're gettin' ready to bomb the living the fuck out of Iran and maybe another Arab country.

[TahitiNut]

6. Or Korea.

:eyes: