Why They Hate Us Update #0001

The geniuses in the Pentagon are looking to build a new "superbomb" that "could take out targets -- such as underground caverns that conceal weapons of mass destruction -- without posing the severe political risks of using nuclear bombs."

Got it? The reason we don't just nuke the whole of the Third World has nothing to do with the widespread destruction and carnage, nor the long-term environmental/health catastrophe they'd bring upon the targeted areas. We're only constrained by "severe political risks". But then, nuclear weapons by any other name don't bear political risks, either.

Note, too, planning for the new "superbomb" has elicited scorn from the scientific community not for the catastrophic damage its use would cause, not for (in the example given) the atmospheric release that would result from "taking out" "caverns that conceal weapons of mass destruction" (we know exactly where all the Third World's weapons of mass destruction are concealed, see?), but because of the "implausibility" of the process' being able to release as much energy (that is, cause as much destruction) as advertised.

Posted by Eddie Tews at September 29, 2003 04:06 PM