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Edited on Wed Oct-26-05 01:43 AM by gatorboy
WASHINGTON - The Bush administration has abandoned research into a nuclear "bunker-buster" warhead, deciding instead to pursue a similar device using conventional weaponry, a key Republican senator said Tuesday.
Sen. Pete Domenici (news, bio, voting record), R-N.M., said funding for the nuclear bunker-buster as part of the Energy Department's fiscal 2006 budget has been dropped at the department's request.
The nuclear bunker-buster had been the focus of intense debate in Congress, with opponents arguing that its development as a tactical nuclear weapon could add to nuclear proliferation.
An administration official, speaking on condition on anonymity because negotiations on the department's spending bill have not yet been completed, confirmed that a decision had been made to concentrate on a nonnuclear bunker-buster. -----------------------------------------------------
Okaayyyy, so maybe I don't know how this works. But how does the Energy Dept. benefit from nuclear warhead plans? I mean, sure, you're using energy to vaporize other countries but shouldn't this be a plan more suited for a military budget? Was this snuck in so it would pass? I was always under the assumption that the energy dept was for...uhhh locating energy...For us. :shrug:
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