Monday, November 24, 2003
One More Terrible Idea Among So Many
Hard to keep track of them, ain't it?
Fred Kaplan is one of the few good things about Slate; here he gives you the low, and we do mean low...down on one of this administration's genuine dosies, low-yield nuclear weapons, which are impractical, expensive, and will require testing, thus undemining four decades of progress made on behalf of non-proliferation of nukes, at exactly the time we're complaining that the world isn't backing our position on Iran's non-military nuclear program, even though Iran has agreed to international inspections. A triple threat (and we do mean threat) weapons program, these bunker busters, that don't even do that efficiently.
These guys won't be content until they've started another international nuclear arms race. And why not? Wasn't that how we - uh, Ronald Reagan beat the Soviets?
Fred Kaplan is one of the few good things about Slate; here he gives you the low, and we do mean low...down on one of this administration's genuine dosies, low-yield nuclear weapons, which are impractical, expensive, and will require testing, thus undemining four decades of progress made on behalf of non-proliferation of nukes, at exactly the time we're complaining that the world isn't backing our position on Iran's non-military nuclear program, even though Iran has agreed to international inspections. A triple threat (and we do mean threat) weapons program, these bunker busters, that don't even do that efficiently.
These guys won't be content until they've started another international nuclear arms race. And why not? Wasn't that how we - uh, Ronald Reagan beat the Soviets?
