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ZippoZ
Knomadic


Registered: 06/17/03
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Oh this just makes me feel so warm and fuzzy inside :)
#5746038 - 06/13/06 02:47 PM (17 years, 7 months ago) |
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http://apnews.myway.com/article/20060613/D8I7G77O0.html
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Labs Compete to Make New Nuclear Bomb Email this Story
Jun 13, 2:26 PM (ET)
LOS ANGELES (AP) - The Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory in the San Francisco Bay area and the Los Alamos National Laboratory in New Mexico are competing to design the nation's first new nuclear bomb in two decades.
Scientists at both facilities are working around the clock on plans that will be presented to the Nuclear Weapons Council, a federal panel that oversees the nation's nuclear weapons. The council will choose a winner later this year.
"I have had people working nights and weekends," said Joseph Martz, the head of the Los Alamos design team. "I have to tell them to go home. I can't keep them out of the office."
Congress approved the new bomb, known as the reliable replacement warhead, with bipartisan support in 2005 as part of a defense spending bill. The weapon would, by law, have the same explosive power as existing warheads.
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.
Critics say the project could trigger a new arms race with Russia and China, and undercut arguments that countries such as Iran and North Korea must stop their nuclear programs.
The United States and Russia signed a treaty in 2002 calling for the countries to each cut nuclear inventories to between 1,700 and 2,200 warheads by 2012.
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zippoz "in times of widespread chaos and confusion, it has been the duty of more advanced human beings - artists, scientists, clowns, and philosophers - to create order. In such times as ours however, when there is too much order, too much m management, too much programming and control, it becomes the duty of superior men and women and women to fling their favorite monkey wrenches into the machinery. To relieve the repression of the human spirit, they must sow doubt and disruption" "People do it every day, they talk to themselves ... they see themselves as they'd like to be, they don't have the courage you have, to just run with it."
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Snaggletooth
Stranger in a Strange Land


Registered: 10/24/05
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Re: Oh this just makes me feel so warm and fuzzy inside :) [Re: ZippoZ]
#5746695 - 06/13/06 06:23 PM (17 years, 7 months ago) |
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Very cool, both labs should be national treasures,
But I hope The Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory is the one that gets it.
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Prisoner#1
Even Dumber ThanAdvertized!


Registered: 01/22/03
Posts: 193,665
Loc: Pvt. Pubfag NutSuck
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Re: Oh this just makes me feel so warm and fuzzy inside :) [Re: ZippoZ]
#5746722 - 06/13/06 06:29 PM (17 years, 7 months ago) |
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zippoz said: http://apnews.myway.com/article/20060613/D8I7G77O0.html
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LOS ANGELES (AP) - The Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory in the San Francisco Bay area and the Los Alamos National Laboratory in New Mexico are competing to design the nation's first new nuclear bomb in two decades.
Someone call Bush, aparently WMDs are being produced, we need to invade, FAST!
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Penguarky Tunguin
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Re: Oh this just makes me feel so warm and fuzzy inside :) [Re: Prisoner#1]
#5746735 - 06/13/06 06:31 PM (17 years, 7 months ago) |
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Damnit!!! You stole my line!
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Prisoner#1
Even Dumber ThanAdvertized!


Registered: 01/22/03
Posts: 193,665
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Re: Oh this just makes me feel so warm and fuzzy inside :) [Re: Penguarky Tunguin]
#5746927 - 06/13/06 07:21 PM (17 years, 7 months ago) |
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I've been doing it all day... sorry
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Konnrade
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Registered: 09/13/05
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Re: Oh this just makes me feel so warm and fuzzy inside :) [Re: Snaggletooth]
#5746968 - 06/13/06 07:29 PM (17 years, 7 months ago) |
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Snaggletooth said: Very cool, both labs should be national treasures,
But I hope The Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory is the one that gets it.
I'm not sure why, but I've always preferred Los Alamos
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