The battle over new nukes at home

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AT ISSUE IS a new Modern Pit Facility designed for annual production of 150-450 plutonium pits, or cores. The pits are softball-sized nuclear bombs used to trigger the thermonuclear reaction of the far more powerful hydrogen bombs in nuclear warheads.
       The rationale for a new plant — which could be built in one of five possible sites — is to replenish pits for nuclear weapons that otherwise will degrade over time, according to the Department of Energy, which oversees nuclear weapons and related clean-up. These pits haven’t been manufactured on a large scale in the United States since the 1989 closure of the Rocky Flats Plant in Colorado and proponents say the new plutonium pit production is needed to maintain a viable defensive nuclear arsenal.
       But environmental and nonproliferation activists say the scope of the project suggests it is also aimed at supporting controversial new designs of nuclear weapons pursued by the Bush administration, as well as a capacity far beyond what is needed, given post Cold War nonproliferation agreements, sending the wrong message to the world as the United States seeks to limit weapons of mass destruction.
       “It’s like a drunk preaching abstinence from the bar stool as he buys another round,” says Bob Schaeffer, public education director for the non-profit Alliance for Nuclear Accountability.

http://msnbc.com/news/939310.asp?0cv=CB20

Kari Huus is an excellent reporter, as far as I can tell. She's the only one I've ever seen tell the truth about Taiwan. Anyway, if you like this story please email her so she can do more honest investigative reporting! Thanks!
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The government also waged a silent purge of dissent. By some estimates, 25,000-30,000 people were spirited away and executed for expressing their political views. Thousands of others were imprisoned.
http://www.msnbc.com/news/315530.asp
http://www.msnbc.com/news/316717.asp (I've never seen this in print. AP and Reuters are the most scum sucking sleaze of all media whores on Taiwan.)

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1. What corp. makes these?

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[teryang]

2. In an effort to compensate

...for the average American's unwillingness to bleed for corporate colonial adventures overseas, the BFEE solution is nuclear hand grenades.