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David F. Bell Bunker Busting and Bunker Mentalities, or Is It Safe to Be Underground? Not long after the invasion of Afghanistan in the wake of the 9/11 attacks in the fall of 2001, a debate about the development of a Robust Nuclear Earth Penetrator (RNEP) weapon, commonly referred to as a nuclear bunker buster, erupted in political and military circles in the United States. It called into question a moratorium on the development of low-yield nuclear weapons that had been in effect since 1994 in the United States. In a brief white paper on the issue of nuclear bunker busters, Global Security.org recalls the essential history of this moratorium: âShortly after Bill Clinton entered the White House, Representatives John Spratt (D-S.C.) and Elizabeth Furse (D-Ore.) introduced an attachment to the FY 1994 defense authorization bill, prohibiting U.S. weapons labs from conducting any research and development on low-yield nuclear weapons. The measure, which was passed and signed into law by President Clinton, defined low-yield nukes as having a yield of five kilotons or less.â1 The Spratt-Furse amendment to the defense authorization bill was ultimately a response to a reportââPotential Uses for Low-Yield Nuclear Weapons in the New World
South Atlantic Quarterly – Duke University Press
Published: Apr 1, 2008
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