Pentagon requests funding for 30,000-pound "mother of all bunker busters" in $42 billion request

[sabra]

http://blog.wired.com/defense/2007/10/giant-bomb-bio-.html

Like previous pleas for more war money, the Pentagon has slipped a couple of items into this new, $42 billion request that are... well, questionable at best. Like protection against biological and chemical weapons -- even though there are none to be found in either Afghanistan or iraq.

Protection against Chemical, Biological, Radiological, and Nuclear Explosives (CBRNE) threats is still of critical importance in a fight against a cunning and adaptive enemy. While we have not experienced a CBRNE attack in Iraq or Afghanistan, the enduring danger of such an attack requires that the Department be prepared for such situations. Thus, this Amendment request includes $69 million for protection and detection equipment to protect American and Coalition forces from chemical, biological, and radiological weapons.

And does the American military really intend to drop the 30,000-pound "mother of all bunker busters" -- the so-called "Massive Ordnance Penetrator" -- on insurgents?

The Replenishment category also includes $0.3 billion for the development of specific technologies to improve the survivability of U.S. personnel and equipment. This includes funding for the Massive Ordnance Penetrator (MOP) for use on the B-2 bomber.

:nuke: :scared:

[sicksicksick_N_tired]

1. I've always thought a "bunker buster" could have the same effect as a firecracker,...

,...in a closed hand.

I cried for three days when congress approved funding the new nuke bunker busters. The war profiteers have portrayed these damn things as mini-nukes,...like, somehow, they would be less destructive therefore more desirable weapons of mass destruction.

It's a fact this country has enough weapons of mass destruction to destroy the earth several times over. Any further development and production is just a fucking waste of resources. Any further funding is revolting.

[Rageneau]

2. NOOOOOOOO!

We need bridges to nowhere more than we need more godamned weapons of mass destruction.

[ladjf]

3. Will the lunacy ever end?

[DFW]

4. That makes sense

This way, if a Democratic-controlled Congress votes to deny them funds
in the future, they can just use one of these thing to make the Capitol
go away, along with everybody in it.