[mburbank]

DU is just stupid to be fucking around with. It's a scientiffic bad alley. But then weapon science almost always is.

Mini nukes and bunker busters because they guarantee an arms race. The US ought to remember tht an arms race destroyed the soviet union and it could do the same for us. Plus it reduces the tiny scrap of credability we have left when we ask others to disarm or seek to stem proliferation.


Non nuclear, but equally stupid is 'star wars missile defense' because no one who actually works on the stuff thinks that it's in any way possible, ever. Fixes to thwart it will always be much cheaper and more easily engineered then any technology breakthrough could make it, AND there are far more secretive cheaper ways to stage a small scale nuclear attack, and small scale is all these star wars even hopes to be useful against in it's wildest dreams. The amount of money we have spent deploying a system prior to making it work could be used for actual homeland defense and create a lot more jobs. Plus, if any group is ever stupid enough to think we're getting somehwere with a 'nuke shield' it's a heavy incentive to 'use it or lose it' as far as whatever they already have.