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Pentagon: 30,000 Pound Bomb Too Small
smitty777 writes "According to the Pentagon, the 30,000-pound, precision-guided Massive Ordnance Penetrator GBU-57 bomb is just too small. Concerns around Iran's fortification of their nuclear program facilities has the DoD seeking from Congress something not quite as subdued as the GBU-57, the largest non-nuke bomb operated by the USAF. This 'smaller' bomb just recently won a prize for its ability to cut through 60 feet of concrete. The upgrades will cost $82 million on top of the $330 million spent so far to develop the system. There is some interesting high speed camera footage of the GBU-57 in the video below."
That got rid of the mice. Soon we will be at Elephants getting rid of lions.
They must've overshot us by a week and a half!
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A peculiar arms race: the more we spend on oil to develop such weapons, the more the Iranians can spend to dig deeper facilities. For a hell of a lot less money, we could have handed Monsanto a nuclear tip and had the FDA write a blanket decree: "entirely worth doing". Monsanto would of course protest at first blush, "but only if we can sue surrounding nations for harbouring unauthorized radionuclides". If only our reticence to fight fire with fire had been matched by a similar reticence concerning the safety of shotgun gene splicing. For a long time I was under the illusion that Monsanto had grafted these genes into a fixed chromosomal position so that you actually had a stable organism to assess for safety, rather than the biological equivalent to Bertie Bott's Every Flavour Beans.