Why does Bush think we have robust Nuclear Earth Penetrators and Replacement Warhead program?
RNEP: A proposed addition to the arsenal U.S. nuclear weapons designed to destroy deeply buried targets. The explosion of a weapon could be as large as a megaton, about seventy times the force of the bomb used on Hiroshima. RRW: A report of February 7, 2005 edition of The New York Times suggests that the Department Energy can try to use the Reliable Replacement Warhead program to help field warheads with new military capabilities. In other Under the RRW program can replace Advanced Concepts, an initiative to develop a performance "weak" nuclear weapon that Congress fully removed in 2004. A return "bottom" of nuclear weapons is the key to the Bush administration in 2002 Nuclear Posture Review, which called for a more "usable" nuclear weapons and a list of seven countries as potential targets for the first strike nuclear attacks: China, Russia, Iraq, Iran, North Korea, Libya and Syria.
I do not know what ... 70 times more powerful? wow. I will pass this info. on.
Nuclear Posture Review (1) - Gates, Clinton, Mullen, Chu