In article , Henry J Cobb wrote:
http://www.nationalreview.com/kerry/...0406020904.asp
Gen. Richard Myers, in a May 2003 briefing, explained that a nuclear
bunker buster could minimize the threat from biological or chemical
weapons at an enemy site.

By the time the nuclear bunker buster is fielded, both Iran and North
Korea will have nuclear armed missiles capable of at least striking
their neighbors, so who exactly would you use the RNEP on?

You're not going to find all of their launch locations before you strike
and afterwards they have nothing to lose by launching.

-HJC


Some people think that all of Iraq's alleged bio and chemical
materials are is a really deep tunnel in Syria. They claim that
conventional bunker busters will not go deep enough, and risk
spreading the material around. Only a BB Nuc will fit the mission.

My take on this is

(a) The claim is made by the same people that said they knew where
the NBC material was, before the war.

(b)Lots of countries (and many bright higb school kids) can make
Sarin, and other nasty material. The stuff is very hard to distribute
effectivlly, as shown by the Sarin attack in Japan, and the Christian
cult in Idaho (?) that tried to spread biologicals in the public food
supply, the handful of people that died in the antrax attacks, and the
fact that the Sarin 155mm shell they found in Iraq caused littlre more
than a headache. One country with a big stickpile is a problem, but
not the end of the world.

(c) Any country that did have some of this material will learn to keep
it in several low-profile locations rather than one huge tunnel that
is probably detected by our spies and sat's (if we are competant)





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