Comments on: Backdoor to New Nukes

By: Thomas

Thomas — Sun, 07 Jan 2007 03:59:42 +0000

Yeah! Lets spend a ton of money a something we are never going to use. And stop acting like nukes have a use in war. If it comes to nukes the war IS over.

By: Byron Skinner

Byron Skinner — Wed, 19 Apr 2006 18:55:06 +0000

Good Morning Folks,
I’m in agreement with ShepUK. Nuclear weapons are a fact of life in the world and the United States as the worlds super power must keep in font of this technologly.
Those that think that the nclear genie can be stuffed back into the bottle are delusional in their thinkng. The test on Jne 2ed. is non-nuclear and designed to improve the U.S’s. sisulmation software and to developethe techno;ogly for low yeld nuclear weapons.
If it comes to a nuclear showdown the avaibability of of 5mt. or smaller weapons would cause a great deal less loss of life and damage.
ALLONS,
Byron Skinner

By: Sarge

Sarge — Wed, 19 Apr 2006 00:51:12 +0000

Vicissitudes of fortune, which spares neither man nor the proudest of his works, which buries empires and cities in a common grave.
– Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire (ch. LXXI)
EDWARD GIBBON
English historian

By: erewhon

erewhon — Tue, 18 Apr 2006 23:49:45 +0000

More than one thing going on here. It’s harder to come up with tritium these days, and the current arsenal depends on tritium for both boost gas and for the initiator. The problem is, that tritium has a fairly brisk decay rate, and has to be removed and filtered about once a year.
The recent problems at the Savannah River plant where the filtering is done didn’t help.
They want a new set of weapons that don’t need tritium. It takes too much maintenance, and we don’t produce tritium much anymore. It’s a pain in the butt to deal with. It would be nice to be rid of it, instead of going back into production. Given the current anti-nuclear sentiment, they’d probably have to do it ‘under the table’ or buy it from Canada. Far easier to be done with it.
Next, there is a new twist recently. It allows some new weapons that you couldn’t have done previously, namely, very small yield weapons with very low residuals. Lots of interest there.

By: Tyler Riddle

Tyler Riddle — Tue, 18 Apr 2006 16:43:30 +0000

Thats my favorite nuclear explosion photograph; it looks like Satan playing a guitar to me. He is standing up and blasting the most powerful riff known to man: the nuclear riff!

By: ShepUK

ShepUK — Tue, 18 Apr 2006 16:23:42 +0000

New nukes are gonna be needed no matter how may hippies and peaceniks ball about the idea. Some people need to grow up and realise we live in an atomic world with many other countries playing with nukes why not America? Hell i guess some people would rather go back to clubs or bows and arrows then use a weapon that can anhilate your enemys in one hit. Eneamy life is precious and your own troops life’s are not? Just hope they use some on the iranians instead of going the lame conventional route with its inevitable loss of life on our side, but then thats wrong i guess cos its not PC, rofl.