From The New York Times, 8/3/03:
http://www.nytimes.com/2003/08/03/weekinreview/03BROA.html?hp
Facing a Second Nuclear Age
By WILLIAM J. BROAD
This week, ten minutes by car south of Omaha, Neb., the United States
Strategic Command is holding a little-advertised meeting at which the
Bush administration is to solidify its plans for acquiring a new
generation of nuclear arms.
Topping the wish list are weapons meant to penetrate deep into the
earth to destroy enemy bunkers.
The Pentagon believes that more than 70 nations, big and small, now
have some 1,400 underground command posts and sites for ballistic
missiles and weapons of mass destruction.
Determined to fight fire with fire, the Defense Department wants bomb
makers to develop a class of relatively small nuclear arms -- ranging
from a fraction the size of the Hiroshima bomb to several times as
large -- that could pierce rock and reinforced concrete and turn
strongholds into radioactive dust.
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Those of you who've still got a job, get those fallout shelters built
(they don't do much good, ya know). The rest of you folks had better
learn how to duck and cover (that doesn't do any good either, but what
the hell, it'll make ya feel better).
Harry
"I'm not saying we wouldn't get our hair mussed, Mister President, but
I do say not more than ten to twenty million dead depending on the
breaks."
General "Buck" Turgidson, in Dr. Strangelove: Or How I Learned To Stop
Worrying And Love The Bomb (film), weighing-up probable losses after
nuclear combat.
Harry
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