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Defense Secretary demands Congress fund new nuclear weapons program, offers veiled threats on testing
John Byrne
Raw Story
Wednesday, Oct 29, 2008
Hints that the Pentagon will restart nuclear testing in effort to prod Congress to fund new generation of weapons.
After making a comment the same day saying that Russia must reduce its nuclear arsenal, Defense Secretary Robert Gates called on the United States to begin testing its nuclear weapon program and fund a new generation of nuclear weapons.
The Bush Administration is at odds with Congress on a law that would authorize the funding for a Reliable Replacable Warhead project — the so called “next generation” of nuclear weapon designs.
“To be blunt, there is absolutely no way we can maintain a credible deterrent and reduce the number of weapons in our stockpile without resorting to testing our stockpile or pursuing a modernization program,” Gates told the Carnegie Endowment, where he spoke Thursday, according to prepared remarks posted by .
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“In other words,” Wired’s Nathan Hodge remarks, “fund this thing, mothertruckers, or we start testing. The United States concluded the last full-scale underground test of a nuke in 1992, and declared an official moratorium two years later; a return to testing would be a really big deal. In a speech last month on the limits of U.S. power, he alluded � briefly � to the importance of RRW. That part of the speech earned few headlines, but for nuke-watchers, it was a telling moment.”
“Currently, the United States is the only declared nuclear power that is neither modernizing its nuclear arsenal nor has the capability to produce a new nuclear warhead,” Gates added. “The United Kingdom and France have programs to maintain their deterrent capabilities. China and Russia have embarked on ambitious paths to design and field new weapons.”
Congress has blocked funding for the initiative in the past. For the last two years, $89 million needed to determine the cost of building a new warhead was axed.
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October 29th, 2008 at 6:14 am
Game over man. Best hold on to your butts baby cuz its gonna get real interesting in the next 90 days. All this nuke bomb talk is to keep us from seeing whats right in front of our face. Look around Mama, dont you see it? Pay attention to the billionaires and the 100-900 millionaires. Now what is the common denominator of all these megawealthy? What is Buffet doing? He built a Doomsday vault. What’s Cheney doing? He built a 6-story underground fortress for him and his family. How about the government in general? Google continuity of government. The concentration camps have been built. The guards are there NOW. People have been seeing 100s of thousands of coffins near railway depots. And now the top brass is telling us point blank that something is coming down in January. Something BIG. All you people who read this to make fun of the paranoid survivalists, better ask yourself: “what are the signs of the times?”. You still have a month or two to get your family prepared baby. Better go on over to survivalistseeds.com and get 12 years worth of food for pennies on the pound. Or maybe us tin-foil hat wearing wacko’s are all deluded. I hope so mama, I hope so.
October 29th, 2008 at 6:23 am
the first comment by kshatriya is right on in everything said !!!!!!!! where’s the green mother earth freaks (al gore types) at over going more nuclear ????
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=z-t7PmonBEA
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October 29th, 2008 at 7:44 am
Jah has promised to bring to ruin, all those who are ruining the earth, but first, the beasts must be unleashed. He who endures to the end will be saved.
October 29th, 2008 at 8:06 am
next war is nuclear….
world is much to small now…
you will see ww3…. i promise you that… within 50 years you will see ww3…
they will fight with guns, tanks, planes, boats, subs and everything they have, even NUCLEAR bombs………
we are human,,, we have wars,,,, we drop atomic bombs on people,,, OF course it will happen again, thats why the nukes are here…. so we can use them….
ANYBODY who thinks otherwise, is not living in reality…
here is reality,,,, we have nukes,,, we have wars,,,, any counrty about to be defeated will use everything in their power to stop the enemy….
SORRY people but the nukes are here to stay,,, we are just waiting for some crazy mother^%*er to be elected and we will have ww3… just wait for some luney toon to get power and then bye bye earth…. jokes…. our creator won’t let us desrtoy ourselves, he needs his day of glory first…
October 29th, 2008 at 6:18 pm
Remember what Albert Einstein said about this: “I don’t know what the next war will be fought with, but the one after that will be fought with sticks and stones.”
Duck and cover!