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Bunker Busting and Bunker Mentalities, or Is It Safe to Be Underground?

Bunker Busting and Bunker Mentalities, or Is It Safe to Be Underground? 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: “Shortly 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.”1 The Spratt-Furse amendment to the defense authorization bill was ultimately a response to a report—“Potential Uses for Low-Yield Nuclear Weapons in the New World http://www.deepdyve.com/assets/images/DeepDyve-Logo-lg.png South Atlantic Quarterly Duke University Press

Bunker Busting and Bunker Mentalities, or Is It Safe to Be Underground?

South Atlantic Quarterly , Volume 107 (2) – Apr 1, 2008

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Duke University Press
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© 2008 by Duke University Press
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0038-2876
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0038-2876
DOI
10.1215/00382876-2007-063
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Abstract

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: “Shortly 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.”1 The Spratt-Furse amendment to the defense authorization bill was ultimately a response to a report—“Potential Uses for Low-Yield Nuclear Weapons in the New World

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South Atlantic QuarterlyDuke University Press

Published: Apr 1, 2008

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