US is Hoarding Nuclear Weapons for a Real 'Armageddon'

[n2doc]

Government auditors were recently looking into why exactly the United States is falling behind in disarming itself of its old nuclear weapon surplus, and they stumbled upon an unusual excuse: asteroid defense.

According to a report detailing an audit of the National Nuclear Security Administration (NNSA) conducted earlier this year, US officials are hoarding some of its enriched uranium components - canned subassemblies (CSAs) - just in case they need to pull a real-world recreation of scenes straight out of the movie Armageddon.

"NNSA officials told us that CSAs associated with a certain warhead indicated as excess in the 2012 Production and Planning Directive and being retained in an indeterminate state pending senior-level government evaluation of their use in planetary defense against earthbound asteroids," the report reads.

And while the NNSA had initially scheduled these same "excess" CSAs to be dissembled by 2015, they have since been identified as an "irreplaceable national asset."

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http://www.natureworldnews.com/articles/9298/20141002/hoarding-nuclear-weapons-real-armageddon.htm

[wandy]

1. This probably wouldn't work you know..............

It didn't even work out all that well as a movie plot.
Then and again.
If push came to shove and it was the only remaining way we might save our collective butts, why not try it.

[3rdwaydem]

2. I agree

[Ichingcarpenter]

3. NASA uses the movie Armageddon as a part of its management training program

NASA uses this well thought out movie made in 1998 not only because the movie is about stopping an asteroid from hitting the earth, but because it has over 168 distinct things that are impossible to do. To reiterate, there’s an emphasis on impossible and not improbable. The list would probably be too long if one counted the improbable tasks as well.

Ivan, the soviet nuclear weapon would need to be 1000 bigger to do almost...... something.