Lab officials excited by new H-bomb project

Lab officials excited by new H-bomb project

By Ian Hoffman, STAFF WRITER


For the first time in more than 20 years, U.S. nuclear-weapons scientists are designing a new
H-bomb, the first of probably several new nuclear explosives on the drawing boards. If they succeed, in perhaps 20 or 25 more years, the United States would have an entirely new nuclear arsenal, and a highly automated fac- tory capable of turning out more warheads as needed, as well as new kinds of warheads.

"We are on the verge of an exciting time," the nation's top nuclear weapons executive, Linton Brooks, said last week at Lawrence Livermore weapons design laboratory.

Teams of roughly 20 scientists and engineers at the nation's two laboratories for nuclear-explosive design — Livermore and Los Alamos in New Mexico — are in a head-to-head competition to offer designs for the first of the new thermonuclear explosives, termed "reliable replacement warheads" or RRWs.

Designers are aiming for bombs that will be simpler, easier to maintain over decades and, if they fell into terrorists' hands, able to be remotely destroyed or rendered useless. Once the designs are unveiled in September, the Bush administration and Congress could face a major choice in the future of the U.S. arsenal: Do they keep maintaining the existing, tested weapons or begin diverting money and manpower to developing the newly designed but untested weapons?

http://www.insidebayarea.com/oaklandtribune/localnews/ci_3480733

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All of them are psycopaths. And probably seem just ordinary out in public. Maybe even pleasant and humurous.

"You let a man like this lead a weapons project? He's insane!!"
"Sane people don't make these things General!!"

Like popcorn.

Better ways to blow up the world.

steal some of these new, smaller and more portable (and hide-able) weapons. In our wildest dreams we could not have imagined how stupid, greedy and cruel the Republican Administration has become. If we live through this, humans for a thousand years will study the fall of the U.S. into the hands of fascists thugs with the assistance of the religious right. There will be college courses devoted to how to defend against future takeovers such as the coup of the year 2000.

for trying to do the same thing????

Because we're the US. The only true superpower left in the world. That's the way, uh-huh, uh-huh, we like it.

Plus we'd NEVER use it, naturally. <sigh>

"We are on the verge of an exciting time," the nation's top nuclear weapons executive, Linton Brooks, said last week at Lawrence Livermore weapons design laboratory.


ummmmmm... lemme guess...

"exciting tim " as in "extermination of the entire human race time??"

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"May you live in interesting times," (at least, I believe it is a curse).