Bush Pushes For New Nukes - USA Today

[GiovanniC]

From the front of this morning's USA Today:

"But the Bush administration has now taken a decidedly different approach, one that has touched off a passionate debate in Washington. Last year the White House released, to little publicity, the 2002 Nuclear Posture Review. That policy paper embraces the use of nuclear weapons in a first strike and on the battlefield; it also says a return to nuclear testing may soon be necessary. It was coupled with a request for $70 million to study and develop new types of nuclear weapons and to shorten the time it would take to test them."

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"'They are opening the door to a new era of a global nuclear arms competition,' says Daryl Kimball, executive director of the Arms Control Association in Washington, D.C. 'As we try to turn the tide of nuclear proliferation, the last thing we should suggest is that nuclear weapons have a role in the battlefield, and these weapons are battlefield weapons. This is a serious step in the wrong direction.'

Kimball and others say research would eventually lead to testing. If Congress approves the White House requests, the first live tests of any new nuclear weapon could come as early as 2005."

more:

http://story.news.yahoo.com/news?tmpl=story&cid=676&ncid=676&e=1&u=/usatoday/20030707/ts_usatoday/5301538

[bryant69]

1. 2005?

Good timing--if this issue gets much noise before the election it would be embarrassing for President Bush. As it is there may be a case to be made for continuing testing--but it disturbs me that there's not even an attempt to justify this. Just a surrepticious move designed not to get a lot of attention. This is the sort of issue the American people shoudl be involved in.

Bryant
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[GiovanniC]

2. Just a reminder

for those who missed this that our "commander in chief" is a psychopathic moran.

And a shameless :kick: