Author Topic: Robust Nuclear Earth Penetrator (Read 1410 times)

CyranoAH · « **Reply #15 on:** July 02, 2005, 01:37:35 AM »

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Originally posted by Yeager
this must be the thread where all the lesser types find solace.

Triumph: "You don't deal with lesser lifeforms? You must be a very lonely guy!"

Daniel

Nilsen · « **Reply #16 on:** July 02, 2005, 01:41:53 AM »

Problem as I see it is

1 not nice to nuke anyone in the first place

2 if you know their location well enough to nuke em you can prolly just sit on the site for long enough and you get the bad guys

3 how are you going to go in and check whom you have killed if its higly radiated? robots..no.

4 even if the fallout was contained within a relaivly small area, that area would be useless and dangerous to civilians adn wildlife for a long long time

FUNKED1 · « **Reply #17 on:** July 02, 2005, 03:25:28 AM »

I'm all for it. Bring all the troops home, nuke anyone who messes with us.

Nilsen · « **Reply #18 on:** July 02, 2005, 03:32:40 AM »

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Originally posted by FUNKED1
I'm all for it. Bring all the troops home, nuke anyone who messes with us.

You wanna nuke your own goverment?

FUNKED1 · « **Reply #19 on:** July 02, 2005, 03:51:56 AM »

It wouldn't be the first time I suggested it.

Nilsen · « **Reply #20 on:** July 02, 2005, 04:09:18 AM »

are you an "enemy of the state"?

Sandman · « **Reply #21 on:** July 02, 2005, 11:36:49 AM »

http://www.globalsecurity.org/wmd/systems/rnep.htm
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Robust_Nuclear_Earth_Penetrator

$15M for a study is small potatos WRT the defense budget. Still, I wonder why we're still trying to improve upon a type of weapon that we have not used in sixty years.

Today, can you imagine any scenario that would require our use of a nuke?

Toad · « **Reply #22 on:** July 02, 2005, 11:52:48 AM »

NK nuke strike on Tokyo with simutaneous invasion of SK by NK ground forces?

Just guessin'.

spitfiremkv · « **Reply #23 on:** July 02, 2005, 12:07:33 PM »

Only way you get that is if you spray the entire North Korea with PCP.

Mini D · « **Reply #24 on:** July 02, 2005, 12:13:41 PM »

North Korea? No way.

This bomb was designed with a specific use in mind. If used, it will be used in the mountains of Pakistan.

It would need to be a very big event for the U.S. to launch nuclear missiles at a country bordering China. LOL- Just remembered pakistan borders china.

Toad · « **Reply #25 on:** July 02, 2005, 12:15:09 PM »

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Originally posted by Sandman
Today, can you imagine any scenario that would require our use of a nuke?

That comment is in response to this question. My response does not address the use of this penetrator weapon directly.

Mini D · « **Reply #26 on:** July 02, 2005, 12:21:18 PM »

I know. But the scenario you cited was about as far from a correct answer as I could imagine. I've said it before, I'll say it again... NK will need to be slapped upside the head by China when the time comes. Any other action will be unacceptable to the Chinese.

Toad · « **Reply #27 on:** July 02, 2005, 12:31:41 PM »

It is, however, the only scenario I can presently imagine that might cause us to use a nuke.

You never know what a "me so ronely" guy will do and you don't know if the Chinese will stop him in time if he does something foolish.

I'm pretty certain if Japan gets it, we'll reply for them. About the only scenario I can imagine where we'd use a nuke. Note I did not assign a probability to it.

Mini D · « **Reply #28 on:** July 02, 2005, 12:37:16 PM »

I can't seriously see a scenario where launching a strategic nuke at a country bodering China will be viable.

Not without launching a few thousand of them at China too.

Bodhi · « **Reply #29 on:** July 02, 2005, 01:09:57 PM »

I truly feel that any use of a "nuclear weapon" whether it be a ICBM, tactical artillery shell, or a bunker buster is crossing the line that should not be crossed. If we start doing this, who are we to say if other nations do not start doing the same way. To top it off, what is the ethical difference between a bunker penetrator and a tactical nuke shell. One detonates under ground, the other above ground, but both are nuclear weapons. This development bothers me, because I think it is an angel hair away from opening the rest of Pandora's Box.