We test..while we point fingers and saber-rattle at Iran...?

2. It's secret. Our government doesn't want foreigners to find out.
3. It's secret. Our government doesn't want its citizens to find out.
4. It does not involve a blonde bimbo missing after a pre marital bash with her sorority friends at the Big Banana.
5. Did you hear about Susan Rice and Libya?
6. Rush thinks Obama wants to destroy America. That's news!
7. Obama exploded the deficit and unemployment is at an all time high!
8. Obama timed Sandy for election purposes, while he kidnapped the real Chris Christie and replaced him with Dave Axelrod wearing a fat man suit.
9. Obama hates America.
10. It didn't really blow up, so it is not news.

And right after we had the report this morning about uranium in Hawaiian folk's urine? Wait and see if all this shows up in the Guardian, I guess.

stockpiles nuclear material. We are the world's dumping ground for nuclear waste. So, they are just testing to see how much of the crap we can shove under the ground. Because if you read what they say, it makes no sense.

They are conducting nuclear underground tests to "ensure that we can support a safe, secure and effective stockpile without having to conduct underground testing."

just to make sure their stockpiles were safe..

third world countries and storing them on their own soil. That is what the Obama administration has been doing since the beginning. I remember the time they were collecting it in the middle of a huge earthquake in Chili. We need to know how to safely store this stuff and our own nuclear materials. The only way we find out how to do that is research. I will reserve judgment until I know this was testing for other reasons.

which then ship it to France and France Processes it and it comes back here for the parts that can be "reused by reprosess" and then it goes for "storage" with some coming back to Savannah River Plant for use.

Does this sound bizarre? It does to me...but, then...I'm just reading this stuff!

around a dangerous substance without ever thinking about the end results. I think we do a lot of that.

Our military leaders want to see how well the cores of our nuclear weapons are holding up, to reassure themselves old bombs still work.

If the density and geometry of the plutonium core has changed too much since the bomb was manufactured then the bomb fails; instead of incinerating everything for miles around it simply contaminates the area with radioactive waste. The bomb scientists conducting these tests are trying to figure out how much spontaneous recrystallization of these plutonium bomb cores is acceptable so they can develop timetables for refurbishing or remanufacturing bombs.

Too bad we don't simply dismantle all the bombs and use them to make nuclear fuel for electric power plants. So long as this weapons grade plutonium exists (and there are hundreds of tons of it) somebody will be making bombs.

one way or the other, imho.

Thanks...