Bitchin' About Nukes

Look! Another baseless study from pacifist "scientists"!

Earth-penetrating nuclear weapons can destroy hard-to-reach underground facilities but could also kill more than a million people on the surface if used in heavily populated areas, an official US study has concluded.

The congressionally-mandated study comes as US Defense Secretary Donald Rumsfeld is pressing Congress for 8.5 million dollars to study the feasibility of designing nuclear weapons casings hard enough to bore through rocket and concrete before detonating.

Conducted by the National Research Council of the National Academy of Sciences, the study found that earth-penetrating nuclear weapons could effectively destroy deeply buried bunkers with a smaller bang than nuclear weapons detonated on the surface.

But, said John Ahearne, head of the committee that produced the report, "Using an earth-penetrating weapon to destroy a target 250 meters deep -- the typical depth for most underground facilities -- potentially could kill a devastatingly large number of people."

This is pretty much akin to the following statement: "Throwing a balloon full of pudding will ruin lots of table cloths if it's thrown in a room full of table cloths!"

The solution to this problem, of course, is for terrorist regimes not to do anything that might tempt us to use these weapons. It's called deterrence, and it's the reason we built nuclear weapons during the cold war and continue to research them today.