Rumsfeld: Balls of Steel
I can just see the Europeans defecating in their trousers to this speech.
As if Diane Feinstein knows anything whatsoever about the laws of physics; she can barely get around man-made laws as it is!
This goes along with something you've probably gathered already if you're a frequent reader of TSTF. I'm very much in favor of international cooperation, but if foreign countries don't have a desire to be our allies and help us do what's in our best interests, they'd better be pretty damn afraid of us. It's not the job of the federal government to worry about fallout in a hole in some terrorist nation; it's their job to protect the life, liberty, and property of American citizens.
US Defense Secretary Donald Rumsfeld said Thursday it makes "all the sense in the world" to study the feasibility of designing a nuclear weapon capable
of penetrating deeply buried targets.
Rumsfeld defended the proposed 8.5 million-dollar study of a "robust nuclear earth penetrator" at a Senate hearing after it came under fire from Senator Diane Feinstein, a California Democrat.
Feinstein noted that Energy Secretary Samuel Bodman has acknowledged in previous hearings that no missile could bore deep enough into the earth to trap all fallout from a nuclear explosion.
"It is beyond me as to why you are proceeding with this program when the laws of physics won't allow a missile to be driven deeply enough to retain the fallout which will spew in hundreds of millions of cubic feet if it is a hundred kilotons," Feinstein said.
Rumsfeld said more than 70 countries have programs to build facilities underground, and have available to them equipment that can dig chambers the size of a basketball court from rock in a single day.
"We can't go in there and get at things in solid rock underground," Rumsfeld said.
"The only thing we have is very large, very dirty nuclear weapons. So the choice is: do we want to have nothing and only a large, dirty nuclear weapon, or would we rather have something in between. That is the issue," he said.
As if Diane Feinstein knows anything whatsoever about the laws of physics; she can barely get around man-made laws as it is!
This goes along with something you've probably gathered already if you're a frequent reader of TSTF. I'm very much in favor of international cooperation, but if foreign countries don't have a desire to be our allies and help us do what's in our best interests, they'd better be pretty damn afraid of us. It's not the job of the federal government to worry about fallout in a hole in some terrorist nation; it's their job to protect the life, liberty, and property of American citizens.
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