Nuclear earth penetrators: a laughable misunderstanding?

ArmsControlWonk | an arms control weblog: Wolf In Sled’s Clothing?:

Dave Ruppe at Global Security Newswire got ahold of a letter from National Nuclear Security Administration (NNSA) to an undisclosed member of Congress.

Dave reports that the letter claims NNSA will simply continue to develop the Robust Nuclear Earth Penetrator “under a new name”:

Arms Control Wonk is skeptical. Thinks it may all be a big LMU and hopes the Bush administration is really giving up on nuclear earth penetrators. Yes, that would be utterly characteristic of them.

I predicted this on October 26.

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