A U.S. plan to develop a new hydrogen bomb could spark production of new nuclear weapons by other countries, including several foes of the Bush administration, warn some of the nation's leading arms control and disarmament advocacy groups. Full Story »
Posted by Dwight Rousu
I wonder who is going to make money off of this? As the story points out, we have enough hydrogen bombs now. And they will work if we need them. What the story fails to mention is that we don't need them. We have no looming conflicts with nuclear states. The conflicts we face currently are not even against organized states. We have no good targets to nuke. Even with our conventional bombs, we keep killing civilians. Even if we had a target to hit, we have enough weaponry to bomb half the planet into oblivion already. So, we don't need these bombs because we have no targets for them. We don't need them because we already have enough. So which Bush backer is going to make money off of this? It's the only explanation I can see for building them.
