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2005-09-20 Home Front: Tech

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Posted by Steve White 2005-09-20 00:00|| || Front Page|| [11126 views since 2007-05-07] Top

#1 ``The Cold War was won, and the Peacekeeper helped win it,'' he said.

10 warheads on the bus
WOT, should have saved them
just in case
too bad for us

Posted by Red Dog 2005-09-20 00:58|| 2005-09-20 00:58|| Front Page Top

#2 RD, the article says the missiles were deactivated, not destroyed.

Posted by Tibor 2005-09-20 02:14|| http://incompetenttibor.blogspot.com]">[http://incompetenttibor.blogspot.com] 2005-09-20 02:14|| Front Page Top

#3 TX Tibor, for the MX. ;)

Posted by Red Dog 2005-09-20 03:29|| 2005-09-20 03:29|| Front Page Top

#4 Red Dog-

They were saved. For all the disarmament nonsense we hear, not a single US nuclear warhead or bomb has ever been destroyed/disposed of except through accident or damage.
They wait.

Mike

Posted by Mike Kozlowski 2005-09-20 07:15|| 2005-09-20 07:15|| Front Page Top

#5 I think you may be wrong on that Mike. Because of cut backs in production, IIRC they are 'recycling' materials. So an old one is dismantled/destroyed in the process. Just a technicality.

Posted by Glereper Angolutle3263 2005-09-20 08:49|| 2005-09-20 08:49|| Front Page Top

#6 Not exactly true. The boosters are recycled, so are often the initiators and some other equipment. The plutonium pits themselves, and much of the warhead equipment minus boosters tends to be left intact. Boosters have to be replaced every 5-7 years anyway so this isn't much of a big deal.

Posted by Valentine 2005-09-20 12:01|| 2005-09-20 12:01|| Front Page Top

#7 I was hoping Peacekeeper could find a new home, perhaps Iran or Syria?

Posted by Captain America 2005-09-20 19:11|| 2005-09-20 19:11|| Front Page Top

#8 Glereper and Valentine -

Absolutely correct, I should have clarified.

Mike

Posted by Mike Kozlowski 2005-09-20 20:19|| 2005-09-20 20:19|| Front Page Top

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