Labs Compete to Build New Nuclear Bomb 949
An anonymous reader writes "Yahoo! News is reporting that two labs are currently competing to design the first new nuclear bomb in twenty years. The new bomb was approved as a part of the 2006 defense spending bill. From the article: '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.'"
Strangelove (Score:5, Funny)
AYBABTU (Score:1, Funny)
Perhaps... (Score:5, Funny)
Comment removed (Score:4, Funny)
Reduce its stockpile? (Score:0, Funny)
The Headline is Wrong (Score:5, Funny)
Re:Old hat (Score:5, Funny)
Actually, can you imagine what a pain in the ass antimatter weapons would be? One power failure, and BOOM - say goodbye to your stockpile, and most of the continent you were storing it on.
So now it's official (Score:3, Funny)
Who's up for 'liberating' them?
Re:So now it's official (Score:5, Funny)
Labs Compete to Built New Nuclear Bomb (Score:5, Funny)
Re:Strangelove (Score:5, Funny)
Reduce? (Score:2, Funny)
I see four possibilities:
Re:Perhaps... (Score:5, Funny)
"Labs Compete to Built New Nuclear Bomb"
Take another couple of swigs of Vodka and it somehow sounds even better.
"Lab Completes two Built Nude Nuclear Boobs"
Now finish the bottle as you ponder how the term 'fall-out' would apply to the last reading.
Cruiser Ammunition (Score:2, Funny)
Many new designs in past 20 years (Score:5, Funny)
Re:So now it's official (Score:3, Funny)
Libratn'
Re:So now it's official (Score:4, Funny)
No no no, we only need to liberate countries that are run by mad men. You know the type that torture people, spy on their citizens, and violate international law.
Re:Sweet (Score:3, Funny)
Suggested tags (Score:3, Funny)
Suggested misspelling doubling as political commentary on the US government: hypocracy
Re:I wonder who is the target (Score:3, Funny)
In the global power economy, who would you rather be:
a) The USA with 6,000 supernukes
b) North Korea with 20 maybenukes
c) Iran with an "energy program" that "might" be capable of producing deployable nuclear munitions
If you ask, "who the fuck cares, when one nuke is all it takes?" then you're not getting it. All the world knows that one nuke is all it takes, and at least for the time being, nobody in the world wants to fire that nuke for fear of MAD [wikipedia.org]. Not even in the middle east, not even Kim Jong or his cousin Menta Li. And so it devolves into a dick-measuring contest, as these things tend to do. And so the United States wants to show it has the biggest dick[1], as it tends to want.
[1] There is a Bush joke here that I will abstain from making.
expiration date? (Score:1, Funny)
Re:AYBABTU (Score:2, Funny)
Re:Many new designs in past 20 years (Score:2, Funny)
outsource (Score:5, Funny)
xD
Re:Remember Iran: (Score:3, Funny)
If that's the case, why isn't Canada a state yet?
We don't have nukes.
We have a shitload of oil
We have less of a military than Granada, albiet worse weather, so an invasion wouldn't be costly
And you'd finally be able to field a half-decent hockey team
Re:Perhaps... (Score:5, Funny)
Re:Perhaps... (Score:5, Funny)
Weapons of mass terbation?
Re:Remember Iran: (Score:2, Funny)
We don't have nukes.
We have a shitload of oil"
And a bunch of french to surrender!
(sorry, know that one's getting old, just couldn't resist... I'm british, it's in my blood
Re:Parable... (Score:1, Funny)
DRM? (Score:2, Funny)
Carbon Nanotubes can do it! (Score:3, Funny)
Re:Remember Iran: (Score:2, Funny)