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Titolo: poi mi prendete in giro per i miei What if al plutonio....

WASHINGTON (Reuters) - The U.S. Senate has voted to require President George
W. Bush to obtain congressional approval before developing new classes of
smaller nuclear weapons, but has allowed the repeal of the decade-long ban
on studying and developing them.
The Bush administration has pushed to be allowed to research "mini-nukes,"
low-yield tactical nuclear weapons of five kilotons or less, a step
Democrats said would spur a new arms race and heighten the risk of nuclear
war by raising prospects of their use on battlefields.
Defence Secretary Donald Rumsfeld on Tuesday said such weapons may be useful
in destroying stocks of chemical or biological materials for weapons of mass
destruction that other countries may bury in bunkers.
Republicans, who control the Senate, rebuffed the Democrats' bid on Tuesday
to keep the ban on research and development, and a second effort on
Wednesday to permit study but bar the next steps to develop the weapons. The
measure was part of a bill authorising $400.5 billion in defence programs.
Instead, the Senate voted 59-38 to require authorisation before proceeding.
The "mini-nukes" would have one-third or less of the force of the bomb
dropped on Hiroshima in World War Two, which killed more than 100,000
people.
The Republican-led House of Representatives was debating its version of the
defence authorisation bill, which would lift the ban on research but keep it
on developing the low-yield weapons, similar to the Senate Democrats' failed
amendment.
Once the two chambers complete their bills, differences in the measures
would be reconciled in a final bill sent to Bush.
FEARS OF ARMS RACE
Senate Armed Services Committee Chairman John Warner argued that Congress
should not rule out the low-yield weapons program, but should keep oversight
of it.
"We should continue with the basic theme that we're not going to impose a
ban on this nation with respect to this system or any other system which may
be needed in the defence of this nation," said Warner, a Virginia
Republican.
The Bush administration has said it is only interested in researching the
low-yield nuclear weapons, not producing or deploying them.
But Democrats scorned the idea that the administration would put effort into
research, with no intention to produce.
"We are walking down the path of testing and fielding that I think we will
all regret," said Sen. Jack Reed, a Rhode Island Democrat.
Democrats argued that opening the door to smaller nuclear weapons will spur
other countries to develop them. Russia has said it will study the low-yield
weapons, Reed said.
The Senate on a 56-41 vote also backed continuing research on a high-yield
robust nuclear earth penetrating weapon, which Rumsfeld said may be needed
to deter countries from burying their own weapons programs far underground.
Democrats argued that use of such weapons -- which they said could be up to
70 times as powerful as the Hiroshima bomb -- should be unthinkable.


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Il punto č un altro......
Grazie per queste sane risate!  Non ho neanche pagato il biglietto!

 Grazie per queste sane risate!  Non ho neanche pagato il biglietto!
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in effetti nemmeno io ho capito cosa cavolo ha da ridere.
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