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Stimulated Gamma Decay Weapons
ExRex writes "New Scientist is reporting on a USDOD project to produce super explosives. 'An exotic kind of nuclear explosive being developed by the US Department of Defense could blur the critical distinction between conventional and nuclear weapons. The work has also raised fears that weapons based on this technology could trigger the next arms race.'"
who cares? we are all just a bunch of idiots who pretend we are better than the rest of the animal kingdom because we can blow each other up. I am embarrased to be human when I read things like this.
That's also the reason I don't like all that WMD talk because chemical and biological weapons are nowhere near the destructive power of nuclear weapons and treating them as the same thing is quite dangerous and utterly idiotic from a danger-analysis point of view which is why you bombed the hell out of Saddam and try sweet-talking (or what W takes for it)
A biological weapon could kill everyone on the planet. Chemical nerve agents dropped from a plane could kill everyone in a city. The U.S. doesn't have chemical or biological weapons, so the policy is to respond to any WMD attack with our nuclear weapons.
Sometimes when people say "The U.S. doesn't have any chemical or biological weapons", there's a guy who will snort and say "Oh yeah, they do, they just want you to THINK they don't!"
Well:
1) That would be a pretty massive freaking conspiracy, don't you think?
2) We don't need chemical/biological weapons BECAUSE we have nukes. If we were in a real fight where we needed to use every weapon available, its not like we're going to be in trench warfare taking out troops with cholorine gas, we're going to blow up military and economic resources with nuclear weapons launched from thousands or miles away.
Thats really the reason everyone agreed to ban those weapons in the 60s, because they figured out it wasn't worth the money.
" But then again, if someone I had voted for were in office, the defense budget would have gotten slashed in favor of better education/health care."
I shared your PoV before 9-11.