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Last Peacekeeper Deactivated
Inthewire writes "The United States Air Force deactivated the last of 50 Peacekeeper missiles yesterday. The Peacekeeper was an Intercontinental Ballistic Missile capable of accurately placing a 300 Kt W-87 warhead on ten individual targets."
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In other news, officals proudly announced a new line of "war causer" missles, capable of spreading fear, hate and missinformation to everyone on the planet in seconds.
They claimed that the new system, though quantitatively more expensive than the peacekeepers, was scrumulously cheaper. And that price didn't matter, since it could be paid for with an agressive series of tax cuts. And if it did turn out to be expensive, the blaim lay with state and local officials for not asking for the system sooner.
When asked how the news system differed from the existing network of communications satilites, a spokesperson wailed "Won't somebody think of the children?" while the reporter was dragged from the room by Homeland Security.
There were no further questions.
--MarkusQ
In Soviet Russia, nuclear missile deactivates YOU!
When does a rectangle become a line?
Am I the only one who first thought of Farscape instead of Cold War era nukes?
Come on people!
First thing I thought of when I saw the dept. this story came from.
Bugs Bunny: I speak softly, but I carry a big stick!
Yosemite Sam: Oh yeah? Well I speak loouuud, and I carry a biiigger stick! And I use it too!
We don't have a state-run media we have a media-run state.