Tri-Valley Cares needs to be on this if they aren't already. We need to make sure that NNSA and LLNL does not make good on promises to pursue such stupid ideas as doing Plutonium experiments on NIF. The stupidity arises from the fact that a huge population is placed at risk in the short and long term. Why do this kind of experiment in a heavily populated area? Only a moron would push that kind of imbecile area. Do it somewhere else in the god forsaken hills of Los Alamos. Why should the communities in the Bay Area be subjected to such increased risk just because the lab's NIF has failed twice and is trying the Hail Mary pass of doing an SNM experiment just to justify their existence? Those Laser EoS techniques and the people analyzing the raw data are all just BAD anyways. You know what comes next after they do the experiment. They'll figure out that they need larger samples. More risk for the local population. Stop this imbecilic pursuit. They wan...
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Besides the the issues with the stockpile....
Russia and China will have a major tizzy about any new weapons systems. They can stop any project they want just by not showing up for the next T-bill bond sale.
The whole notion of the nuclear triad is history anyway. It was a political deal to keep the various branches of the military happy. Using a manned bomber to deliver a cruise missile that could just as well have been launched via a ship or sub no longer makes sense.
Washington Post: "We're breaking what had been an effective sound barrier in the arms control world, which is the 2,000 number. That had always been the holy grail—if you go below 2,000 [the theory went] you'll lose the strategic triad."
Triad effectively ended by George W. Bush.
Unless you want to deliver it from a point least expected. Let's just hope if we ever toss some nukes again they's about 1000times more powerful then the ones in Japan and we take out the entire country in one big bang leaving us no enemy to fight ever again. I love the smell of victory.
I guess you also love the sight of burned little babies, dead women and children too. You remind me a bit of Saddam and his cousin chemical Ali, with their justification for mass area gassing of the Kurds in northern Iraq - some of them are attacking me, so just kill them all.
Well, past genocide by totalitarian dictators against their own people really has nothing to do with strategic nuclear war between nations, either in cause or in effect. But you know that, and really, good try at liberal moral equivalancy. Unfortunately, you lose.
What would you use that new nuclear-tipped cruise missile that cost nearly a billion dolars to take out? A cave in A-stan? Or better yet lob a brand-new ICBM with conventional warhead at the same coordinates, forgetting the lessons of Able Archer 83. We hayseeds tend to dislike wasting money or starting WW-III.
There is nothing wrong with remote vehicles - some are quite inexpensive and have the ability to save lives. However, right now any new weapons need to help with assymetric warfare. A cruise missile or ICBM is the wrong tool for dealing with MOUT combat or stopping small groups planting IEDs in the countryside. A MQ-9 equipped with AGM-114P's will do just fine and already exists.
So unless I'm a manager desperate for boondoggle money I'd be happy with the money going to more deserving projects.
Man I nailed that one didn't I?
Quick as you can, quit the lab and submit your resume to DOD. They need you, PDQ! Your talents are being wasted here!