The US has lost track of 30,000 of the 70,000 nuclear weapons it has built over the last 50 years. When the Natural Resources Defense Council asked for the accounting, the Department of Energy claimed it could not find the records. Red-faced DOE officials subsequently announced the discovery of an electronic database and 15 million pages of documents that may indicate the whereabouts of the missing nukes. Taking the idea a step further, imagine California's Santa Monica Freeway closed to traffic, paved with solar panels - transformed from one of the world's most polluted corridors into the world's largest solar power station. The bombs can silently destroy targets with a short high-energy 10 gigawatt blast.
Larger versions carried in vans can destroy targets a at a few hundred meters.
According to the Sydney Morning Herald, the Australian Department of Defense has refused to confirm whether it had the bought the bomb. Don't Trade on Me US - Renato Ruggiero, Director General of the World Trade Organization, had agreed to debate the merits of globalization during a visit to San Jose, California in February, but he reneged. In a private meeting with anti-WTO activists, Ruggiero explained his position. The WTO is not the appropriate forum for labor or environmental issues. The WTO is about trade, not about labor or the environment.