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Nuclear Bunker Busters Suggested Articles
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Underground Nuclear Weapons Testing "Since 1963, the United States has conducted all of its nuclear weapons tests underground in accordance with the terms of the Limited Test Ban Treaty. Hence, complete containment of all nuclear weapons tests is a dominant consideration in nuclear test operations." |
Fire
in the Hole: Nuclear and Non-Nuclear Options for
Counter Proliferation "Reacting
to America's military revolution, Iraq and
others began to build underground, where their
facilities were easier to conceal and harder to
destroy. The proliferation of chemical and biological
weapons, often built in apparently typical industrial
facilities, presented new challenges for finding
targets and avoiding collateral damage during
attack. Nuclear weapons designers identified these
requirements as potential missions for new nuclear
weapons." |
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USA
looks at nuclear role in bunker busting "Geoffrey Forden investigates the technical issues associated with the development of low-yield nuclear weapons to destroy underground bunkers."
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Nuclear
bunker busters' sought "Demonstrating a significant shift in America's nuclear strategy, the Bush administration intends to produce—not just research – a thermonuclear bunker-busting bomb to destroy hardened, deeply buried targets, the Pentagon has acknowledged for the first time."
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