Labs Compete to Build New Nuclear Bomb

An anonymous reader writes "Yahoo! News is reporting that two labs are currently competing to design the first new nuclear bomb in twenty years. The new bomb was approved as a part of the 2006 defense spending bill. From the article: 'Proponents of the project say the U.S. would lose its so-called "strategic deterrent" unless it replaces its aging arsenal of about 6,000 bombs, which will become potentially unreliable within 15 years. A new, more reliable weapon, they say, would help the nation reduce its stockpile.'"

Comments

Re:Remember Iran:

[DigiShaman]

That would be idiotic.

Of course it would be. No need to tell me that. However, try telling that to those that want to blow themselves up for the 72 virgins offered in the afterlife.

The world is no longer sane when you're dealing with the insane. Best to keep that in mind ;)

Re:So now it's official

[crabpeople]

"What, pray tell, COULD we be doing to people that would make sawing off a man's head with a knife "minor"?!"

Have you seen any video from iraq at all? The americans destroy an entire country, mentally as well as physically, but one american gets beheaded and they are the major agressors?

"then come back here and tell me that a guard wiping his ass with the Koran is staggeringly brutal and horrible compared to that."

I doubt he was talking about religious insults and more about the rape, torture and mistreatment that the prisoners face in what looks more and more like _every_ terrorist prison/concentration camp that the usa runs. And yes i do believe that beheading is minor compared to months of torture and psychological abuse but maybe ive watched the deer hunter one too many times.