Money well-wasted

I wonder how accurate the targeting was.

The 200 meter accuracy (about 650 feet) seemed low to me at first. Playing around with an explosion calculator online though, a 300 kt weapon like that on the Minuteman can be used extend a 5 psi pressure wave out for nearly 3 miles (if detonated at an altitude of 6,800 feet) or a 20 psi pressure wave out for just under 1.2 miles (if detonated at an altitude of 4000 feet). The military probably considers 650 feet "close enough" that it doesn't warrant upgrade an inertial guidance system to GPS.

For 3yrs & got to see many different rocket & missile launches. There is a very active private space port there as well. Really cool!!!

They were well and truly nuked by the US during the 1940's and 1950's.

This makes me ashamed to be an American and a veteran.

And this is a clear case of moral blindness. These AF types know very well
that what they are doing is wrong, but they do it anyway because of $$$.

Shame on them.

Veterans For Peace Golden Rule Project - aiming to put a stop
to this madness.

I'm not a very religious person, but if these weapons do not merit the
label of "Satanic", I don't know what does.

No, they did not clean up the mess. The USG effort was half-assed at best, and several islands are still uninhabitable.

For one thing they left pure plutonium laying around (some was just shoved into the lagoon) on Bikini Atoll.

Veterans For Peace is on top of this issue, and I was proud to be part of the crew of the Golden Rule.

http://www.vfpgoldenruleproject.org/

As Robert McNamara noted, the combination of nukes and human fallibility will lead to the "death of nations." We need to seriously get rid of them. It can be done.

For Jeebus sake, even Kissinger is opposed to them !!

This test contained no bombs. It was a test of the navigation and delivery systems.

to destroy the planet . .

but that dummy warhead confirms US violation of Article Six of the NPT.

And testing there is just a tad disrespectful, don't you think? The Marshallese were gravely damaged by the earlier tests, and have a lawsuit pending against the nuke powers.

To me, it's a good example of environmental racism.

Meaning, if you think those tests are so benign, how about if we conduct them in a farm field near your home?

Veterans For Peace

(I was proud to crew on the restored Golden Rule's first voyage last year.)

http://www.vfpgoldenruleproject.org/

Plenty of military gun ranges around here. If the USAF wants to test some more guidance and delivery systems around here, I doubt that I would notice but for the news headlines it would generate.

but that dummy warhead confirms US violation of Article Six of the NPT.

And testing there is just a tad disrespectful, don't you think? The Marshallese were gravely damaged by the earlier tests, and have a lawsuit pending against the nuke powers.

To me, it's a good example of environmental racism.

Meaning, if you think those tests are so benign, how about if we conduct them in a farm field near your home?

Veterans For Peace

(I was proud to crew on the restored Golden Rule's first voyage last year.)

http://www.vfpgoldenruleproject.org/

Article VI

Each of the Parties to the Treaty undertakes to pursue negotiations in good faith on effective measures relating to cessation of the nuclear arms race at an early date and to nuclear disarmament, and on a treaty on general and complete disarmament under strict and effective international control.

you probably think that guns keep you safe as well.

Guess what, they don't

it was called MAD, as in Mutually Assured Destruction, so, yes, in a way, they did keep us safe.

And my firearms do keep us safe and well fed.

MAD was, and is, mad.

There is a whole literature out there McNamara, Gen. Dan Butler,
even Kissinger for Jebeus sake.

I do not think that you are a democrat . . you are not thoughtful enough.

Come on, fess up

right of Henry Kissinger.

Veterans For Peace

BTW, I don't believe for one second that your a member of Veterans For Peace.
See, I can through around wild accusations also.

Nothing better to do.

I would think they've been tested enough at this point.

Were there recent upgrades to these? I mean, these have been around since the 70's, right?

Missiles and rockets have a defined shelf-live, and weapons are routinely pulled from the inventory and sent to the test ranges to make sure they operate properly. Of particular concern are the solid fuel engines, since there is the danger of chemical changes to the fuel that may effect reliability.

... and yet all should be peace & tranquility when USAF Global Strike Command do it ...

Ah well, here's to a "safe, secure and effective nuclear deterrent" ...

around nuclear weapons - from scientists to airmen.

Every single one of them knew what they were doing was wrong.

Once you figure out that nuclear weapons are satanic, and that is not hard to do,
you no longer have the right to remain silent, or to be complicit.

Here is an essay I wrote on the 50th anniversary of the
Cuban Missile Crisis

http://otherwords.org/more_lucky_than_brilliant/

Veterans For Peace

Blah, blah, blah, who cares.

Do you condemn other countries as much as the US?

of views with you.

http://otherwords.org/more_lucky_than_brilliant/

But somehow I don't think you are interested in that . .

Really?
I may have have been born at night, but I wasn't born last night.

but incinerating kids is pretty much what nukes are all about.

So you probly ought to remove that quote from your page, or else
re-think your nuke views.

Do I criticize other countries much? Well, I've studied and traveled
in about fifty of them and have pretty much criticized them all.

How about you?

cognitive dissonance.

May you find peace.

but I've already found peace.

Not being sarcastic at all.