Their nuclear blueprint they unveiled last week calls for the abiltiy to produce new 'bunker-busting' bombs. They want to modify the existing bunker-busters, the B61-11, to make them more 'effective'.
The military leadership, according to Sy Hersh, came to the president 2-3 weeks ago and asked for the nuclear option to be taken out of the Iran war plans. Bush refused. Why?
If they took the nuclear option off the table they couldn't use their number-one enemy as justification for their next-generation nukes. Come to think of it, all they have to justify any need for a new generation of modified, bunker-busting B61-11s, and the construction of new nuclear plants with the capability to produce 125 bombs a year, is their fable of underground bunkers in Iran.
No enemy with deep underground bunkers, no need for new bunker-busting nukes.
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