The Union of Concerned Scientists, producer (perpetrator) of this bag of lies, distortions and misdirection have a long, ugly history.
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Students and faculty members at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology founded UCS in 1969. "Through its actions in Vietnam, our government has shaken our confidence in its ability to make wise and humane decisions," reads the UCS founding document.
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Their film's thrust is the
United States is building a nuclear bunker buster, ostensibly to take
out rogue operations like Iran's A-Bomb facilities. It charges
that -
- A nuclear penetrator dropped by a plane would only penetrate a few meters into the ground.
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Wikipedia... a penetrator, dropped from service
height of a bomber aircraft, using kinetic energy to penetrate the
shielding, and subsequently deliver a nuclear explosive to the buried
target.
Rocket sled testing at Eglin Air Force Base has demonstrated penetrations of 100 to 150 feet (46 m) in concrete when traveling at 4,000 ft/s (1,200 m/s).
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- Too shallow to contain the huge amounts of radioactive fallout.
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Wikipedia In
theory, the amount of radioactive nuclear fallout would be reduced from
that of a standard, air-burst nuclear detonation because they would
have relatively low explosive yield. However because such weapons
necessarily come into contact with large amounts of earth-based debris,
they may, under certain circumstances, still generate fallout.
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- As
a result over 3 million people would be killed in the attack with up to
35 million more poisoned by nuclear radiation (mostly in Iran,
Afghanistan and Pakistan)
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USA! UAS! USA!
Oh lighten up. It's a bullshit number from a bullshit group of America hating leftists.
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Politically
charged junk science like this - UCS is active in the man caused GW
charade - finds willing customers on Capitol Hill, as well as
useful idiots who are charged with educating the nation's
chilluns. Campbell Soup Company, I recall, was once rebuked by
the FDA for showing vegetables in their print ad soup bowls, when in
reality said vegetables are under the broth. How is it then that
people who run UCS aren't arrested, and their teaching certificates
revoked? God help them when I'm in charge.
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