They Know Something About "Wormwood" That We Don’t? US Says Keeping Nuclear Weapons Ready For “Planetary Defense”
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Subject: They Know Something About "Wormwood" That We Don’t? US Says Keeping Nuclear Weapons Ready For “Planetary Defense” Sun Oct 05, 2014 8:33 am
They Know Something About "Wormwood" That We Don’t? US Says Keeping Nuclear Weapons Ready For “Planetary Defense”
That’s right, the US isn’t dismantling its old nuclear weapons, because we might need them to destroy an asteroid hurtling toward earth. To clarify some of the bureaucratic language above, NNSA is the “National Nuclear Security Administration”; CSAs are “canned subassemblies” that contain highly enriched uranium for use in nuclear weapons. And senior-level government evaluation means there is contingency planning going on around what to do in the event of an asteroid heading toward earth. The Wall Street Journal, which first reported this item, notes that scientists aren’t necessarily concerned about a massive, planetary-extinction level asteroid more than kilometer in diameter, like the one scientists believe led to the extinction of dinosaurs—at least for the next hundred years...
They Know Something About "Wormwood" That We Don’t? US Says Keeping Nuclear Weapons Ready For “Planetary Defense”
Subject: They Know Something About "Wormwood" That We Don’t? US Says Keeping Nuclear Weapons Ready For “Planetary Defense” 
Sun Oct 05, 2014 8:33 am
