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Too Scary for Words
The Tennessean carried a story from the Washington Post on Joseph C. Wilson, the retired US ambassador who debunked claims that Iraq was obtaining supplies for nuclear weapons in 2002. Wilson said, "It really comes down to the administration misrepresenting the facts on an issue that was a fundamental justification for going to war. It begs the question, what else are they lying about?" So no nuclear weapons in Iraq. For us, however... The Tennessean carried a different story July 7th on the Bush adminstration's mission to restart the nuclear arms testing program. Not only will they test the old nuclear weapons to make sure they are still usable, but the article says that they are planning on developing new nuclear weapons. They even intend to use these nuclear weapons in place of conventional weapons. Instead of using "bunker busters" (conventional bombs that dig into the ground before exploding), they could use nuclear bunker busters which contain a much stronger blast (and irradiate a massive area, the explosion would have to be 6 times as large as the one at Hiroshima to be effective). Darul Kimball, executive director the Arms Control Association in Washington, D.C., is warning that this could lead to a new era of nuclear arms competition. Bush Sr. placed a moratorium on US nuclear tests in 1992. Since then, America has used it's self-restraint as a model for other nations.
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