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I can think of two very good reasons why we would need these mini-nukes. Both have to do with "Bunker Busting". It's easy to boo and hiss, but when it comes time and you needed a tool and it wasn't available, the bitching and moaning come out just as strongly then..you never hear..ohh yeah we understand you didn't know 9/11 was gonna happen because we slashed the budget for the intelligence agencies....no, all you hear is..."YOU should have known".
Oh and don't forget these tools will if needed save more lives than they take.
Unless they get stolen...how many US nukes have gone missing in the past 59 years?
It really is a damned if you do and damned if you don't situation for defense planners. You get bitched at if you do your job and you get bitched at if you don't.
Now, I am as worried about the security of these devices as anyone, but todate, the US has had an exemplary record of physical security on its nuclear devices. None, zero, zip, nada have fallen into the wrong hands. So while we may develop these tools, I think we should also work on tightening up our information security. Make it harder for former foreign nationals to get information back to their countries of origin.
(Note no sarcasm is intended just a dry commentary. I have been reading about these things for more than 2 years now)
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