{"id":1982,"date":"2003-11-27T04:29:21","date_gmt":"2003-11-27T20:29:21","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/michaelhans.com\/eclecticism\/2003\/11\/27\/battlefield-nuke-okd-by-bush\/"},"modified":"2019-12-06T10:53:58","modified_gmt":"2019-12-06T18:53:58","slug":"battlefield-nuke-okd-by-bush","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/michaelhans.com\/eclecticism\/2003\/11\/27\/battlefield-nuke-okd-by-bush\/","title":{"rendered":"Battlefield nuke ok&#039;d by Bush"},"content":{"rendered":"<div class='__iawmlf-post-loop-links' style='display:none;' data-iawmlf-post-links='[{&quot;id&quot;:12750,&quot;href&quot;:&quot;http:\\\/\\\/www.nypost.com\\\/news\\\/worldnews\\\/11763.htm&quot;,&quot;archived_href&quot;:&quot;https:\\\/\\\/web-wp.archive.org\\\/web\\\/20031202193008\\\/http:\\\/\\\/www.nypost.com:80\\\/news\\\/worldnews\\\/11763.htm&quot;,&quot;redirect_href&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;checks&quot;:[{&quot;date&quot;:&quot;2026-03-12 02:05:23&quot;,&quot;http_code&quot;:404},{&quot;date&quot;:&quot;2026-04-08 18:58:40&quot;,&quot;http_code&quot;:404}],&quot;broken&quot;:false,&quot;last_checked&quot;:{&quot;date&quot;:&quot;2026-04-08 18:58:40&quot;,&quot;http_code&quot;:404},&quot;process&quot;:&quot;done&quot;},{&quot;id&quot;:12751,&quot;href&quot;:&quot;http:\\\/\\\/www.metafilter.com\\\/mefi\\\/29853&quot;,&quot;archived_href&quot;:&quot;https:\\\/\\\/web-wp.archive.org\\\/web\\\/20050827102225\\\/http:\\\/\\\/www.metafilter.com:80\\\/mefi\\\/29853&quot;,&quot;redirect_href&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;checks&quot;:[{&quot;date&quot;:&quot;2026-03-12 02:05:32&quot;,&quot;http_code&quot;:200},{&quot;date&quot;:&quot;2026-04-08 18:58:19&quot;,&quot;http_code&quot;:200}],&quot;broken&quot;:false,&quot;last_checked&quot;:{&quot;date&quot;:&quot;2026-04-08 18:58:19&quot;,&quot;http_code&quot;:200},&quot;process&quot;:&quot;done&quot;}]'><\/div>\n<p>If Bush has his way, in a few years our ground troops could be carrying <a href=\"http:\/\/www.nypost.com\/news\/worldnews\/11763.htm\" title=\"BUSH OKS NEW NUKE\">&#8216;small scale&#8217;, &#8216;low-yield&#8217; nuclear rockets<\/a>.<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>\n  President Bush signed a huge new defense bill that includes millions of dollars for a small nuclear bomb designed to destroy deep, hardened underground bunkers.<\/p>\n<p>  Among the many items tucked away in the \\$401 billion defense authorization act was a \\$15 million three-year research project by the Energy and Defense departments to create the Robust Nuclear Earth Penetrator.<\/p>\n<p>  The legislation repeals a decade-old ban on research into low-yield nuclear weapons.<\/p>\n<p>  The controversial new weapon would consist of a hard-nosed rocket able to penetrate 20 feet into the earth with a small-scale nuclear bomb, modified from an existing nuke, that would go off on a delay &#8211; so that it would explode at the deepest point.\n<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>Bush scares me more and more every day.<\/p>\n<p>(via <a href=\"http:\/\/www.metafilter.com\/mefi\/29853\" title=\"or, how I stopped worrying and learned to love the bomb\">MetaFilter<\/a>)<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>If Bush has his way, in a few years our ground troops could be carrying &#8216;small scale&#8217;, &#8216;low-yield&#8217; nuclear rockets.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2042],"tags":[14],"class_list":["post-1982","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-politics","tag-politics"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/michaelhans.com\/eclecticism\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1982","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/michaelhans.com\/eclecticism\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/michaelhans.com\/eclecticism\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/michaelhans.com\/eclecticism\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/michaelhans.com\/eclecticism\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1982"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/michaelhans.com\/eclecticism\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1982\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/michaelhans.com\/eclecticism\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1982"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/michaelhans.com\/eclecticism\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1982"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/michaelhans.com\/eclecticism\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1982"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}