[Janos]

I hope Sweden would revive it's nuclear program. Wonder what B*sh and Co. would do? [I am a Finn.]

[redmenace]

Originally posted by Tiara
On topic:
Paine's report cites other startlers that have eluded all notice outside the cognoscenti. For instance, the Energy Department is building a massive $4 billion-$6 billion proton accelerator in order to produce more tritium, the heavy hydrogen isotope that boosts the explosive yield of a nuclear weapon.

Does a $6 billion dollar proton accelator have and civil uses. Does heavy hydrogen isotope allow for better nuclear reactors? Also is any of the increases going towards fission reactors?

[Tiara]

Originally posted by redmenace
Does a $6 billion dollar proton accelator have and civil uses.

Tritium has little civil use. So i guess not.

Does heavy hydrogen isotope allow for better nuclear reactors?

It boosts the explosive yield of a nuke. If you put this heavy element into a nuclear reactor you'd soon have an overload if you don't use moderators in the reactor itself. So, for reactors it's basically useless unless youi want to turn them into nukes themselves.

Also is any of the increases going towards fission reactors? [/B]

Not according to the article anyway.

[redmenace]

Opps I meant fussion reactors.
*anything that uses super heated plasma must be cool*

[Tiara]

Originally posted by redmenace
Opps I meant fussion reactors.
*anything that uses super heated plasma must be cool*

Not in the article either. This is basically one of the many f*ckups B*sh has made.

Health insurance? Nah... NUCLEAR WEAPONS! YAY!

[IPAndrews]

**** is a borderline lunatic. On that score there's probably little point trying to rationalise his decisions.

[IPAndrews]

Originally posted by IPAndrews
**** is a borderline lunatic. On that score there's probably little point trying to rationalise his decisions.

Okay. Who put his name in the banned word list

[kasperl]

dude, that has been done months ago........

[redmenace]

In reality people just hand him requests and he just signs away. I don't think he sits there and says lets increase nuclear weapons spending while I condomn weapons of mass destruction. Not that the alternative I am mentioning is any better.

[Cabbie]

It's obligatory

[Beowulf]

You forgot the alien threat...

Which, while being a joke, may, in actuality, be a very real problem... we just don't know. Maybe a stargate really does exist and the show and movie is a government initiated endevour...

I didn't read the article, but why not develop new weapons and scrap the old?

~Beowulf

[an0n]

I very much doubt that the majority of that money will be going to nuclear weapons.

They're probably trying to hide the money inside a project that no-one is looking at, then funnel it into a more public place and go "Look! Money!".

[Gank]

Originally posted by redmenace
In reality people just hand him requests and he just signs away. I don't think he sits there and says lets increase nuclear weapons spending while I condomn weapons of mass destruction. Not that the alternative I am mentioning is any better.

Hes on record as saying he wants to develop more nukes so the reality is hes doing exactly what you say. Its only evil countrys that dont deserve nukes anyways, the sort that abuse human rights and start wars and invade other people.

[Styxx]

Originally posted by an0n
...They're probably trying to hide the money inside a project that no-one is looking at...

Yes: their pockets.

And a while ago they were comparing Brazil to Saddam's Iraq and North Korea for not letting their inspectors into our uranium refinement plants. Like our government would be spending any real money on weapons development...



(even though it would be actually kinda cool if they were)

[Kazan]

Deuterium is used in heavy-water fission reactors

the proton accelerator does have research uses

That being said - schrub is a total ****ing moron, but everything he does makes sense from the following two words: apocolyptic postmillenialist

[Janos]

The point is whether Brazil has signed some Anti-Nuclear Weaponry Treatis. If not, it could develop whatever it wanted (and keep silent, a la Israel), if yes - then too bad, sanctions, be my guest.

[Setekh]

Originally posted by Cabbie
It's obligatory

Hah, that anim still makes me laugh. Wtf? ^^

Welcome to HLP, btw.

[J3Vr6]

Dude, this isn't a real newstory.  It's a friggin column chock full of the writers personal opinion, based on a report done by non-profit activists.  You're not getting the full story here.  Is the content dumbfounding?  Yes.  Do we get to see the entire picture?  No.

[Kazan]

you sound like a Schrub-apologist

the man is a ****ing psychopath - he is having us build NEW nuclear weapons

[J3Vr6]

And you like to jump to conclusions.  Do you have problems reading?  I said it was shocking.  I don't think I defended **** or anything in the 6 sentences that I wrote.

I am making clear an observation that this may not be the full picture.  Anyone who makes their own judgement when not having both sides is a poo poo head.