Thread: What's Wrong With Those People?

New Nuclear Weapon Design Approved

The Bush administration selected a design Friday for a new generation of atomic warheads, taking a major step toward building the first new nuclear weapon since the end of the Cold War nearly two decades ago.

The military and the Energy Department selected a design developed by the Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory in California over a competing design by the Los Alamos National Laboratory in New Mexico.
The decision to move ahead with the warhead, which eventually would replace the existing arsenal of weapons, has been criticized as sending the wrong signal to the world at a time when the United States is assailing attempts at nuclear weapons development in North Korea and Iran and striving to contain them.

But military and Energy Department officials said the new U.S. warhead will not add to the nuclear arsenal, but replace existing warheads with ones that are safer and more reliable.

"This is not about starting a new arms race," said Thomas P. D'Agostino, acting head of the DOE's National Nuclear Security Administration, which oversees the nuclear weapons programs.

D'Agostino said that both the Los Alamos and Lawrence Livermore designs were contingent on not requiring nuclear testing. If tests were required in a design, "We were not going to go forward," he said.

So they're going to place the security of the nation on a design that will recieve it's first test when we absolutely cannot afford to have them fail.

Brilliant.

You are disagreeing with the almighty and all knowing Bush administration? For weeks you have been suggesting that they are smarter than all of us and know what's good for all of us. Is this not true now?

Originally Posted by Think for myself

You are disagreeing with the almighty and all knowing Bush administration? For weeks you have been suggesting that they are smarter than all of us and know what's good for all of us. Is this not true now?

So in your narrow world you have to agree with someone 100% of the time to support them? :sarcasticfainting:

Originally Posted by conservative

So in your narrow world you have to agree with someone 100% of the time to support them? :sarcasticfainting:

So they are going to replace the nukes with the green launch button with the nukes that have the red launch button. It will only cost a zillion dollars.

And you guys are worried about who supports Bush or not.

I think that we had better gather up the nukes laying around the world before we start building any new ones. The military complex can make their money taking them apart. We are spending way more than we can afford making nukes and nuke shields and replacement parts for stuff getting blown up in Iraq and having two carrier fleets sitting in the Persian Gulf and.......

Originally Posted by lakeman

So they are going to replace the nukes with the green launch button with the nukes that have the red launch button. It will only cost a zillion dollars.

I'll bet you're right, 'specially about the money part. :hissy:

Originally Posted by Think for myself

You are disagreeing with the almighty and all knowing Bush administration? For weeks you have been suggesting that they are smarter than all of us and know what's good for all of us. Is this not true now?

This is why you should base your thought process on what people said, not what you think they said.

Hmmm....and no one picked up the key point:

that we're not going to test them.

This is just TOO stupid.

Originally Posted by Feslin

This is why you should base your thought process on what people said, not what you think they said.

The infamous Feslin, spouting wisdom yet nary an original thought. Spending his weekend arguing with a bunch of older people about subjects of which he has no knowledge and popping pimples.