[lit-ideas] madmen

 
Ok.  That does it.  I officially declare all government leadership  insane 
and request the immediate involuntary commitment of all govt. officials  to a 
mental facility where they can be heavily and permanently sedated.  
We call ourselves *rational*?!?!  
Julie Krueger  
_http://news.yahoo.com/s/afp/usnuclear;_ylt=Aq73H9V1ccWSJZeMyj_B5igDW7oF;_ylu=
X3oDMTBiMW04NW9mBHNlYwMlJVRPUCUl_ 
(http://news.yahoo.com/s/afp/usnuclear;_ylt=Aq73H9V1ccWSJZeMyj_B5igDW7oF;_ylu=X3oDMTBiMW04NW9mBHNlYwMlJVRPUCUl)
    
<<"For attacks near or in densely populated urban areas using nuclear  
earth-penetrator weapons on hard and deeply buried targets (HDBTs), the number  
of 
casualties can range from thousands to more than a million, depending  
primarily on weapon yield," the report said.  
Nevertheless, the administration says it wants to study the technical  
feasibility of making nuclear weapons cases that can bore through rock before  
detonating.  
"It is beyond me as to why you are proceeding with this program when the laws 
 of physics won't allow a missile to be driven deeply enough to retain the  
fallout which will spew in hundreds of millions of cubic feet if it is a 
hundred  kilotons," said Senator Diane Feinstein, a Democrat, told Rumsfeld 
Wednesday.  
Rumsfeld replied: "It seems to me studying it makes all the sense in the  
world."  
He argued that more than 70 countries now have programs to build facilities  
deep underground.  
"The only thing we have is very large, very dirty nuclear weapons. So the  
choice is: do we want to have nothing and only a large, dirty nuclear weapon, 
or 
 would we rather have something in between. That is the issue," he said.  
Congress last year killed funding for a study on the technical feasibility of 
 making nuclear weapons cases that are hard enough to bore through rock.  
But the administration has requested resumed funding in its 2006 budget  
proposal. Besides 8.5 million dollars in 2006, the proposal calls for another 
14  
million dollars to complete the study in 2007.  >>

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