So, it was all the silence before the storm. Forget disarmament, perhaps, the cry of the skulls buried in Hiroshima and Nagasaki have lost their echoes and now to bury more they are unleashing a ‘new nuclear bomb’. The U.S. has certainly triggered a new era of arms race.



In the name of competition, scientists at the Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory in the San Francisco Bay area and the Los Alamos National Laboratory in New Mexico are about to design the nation’s first new nuclear bomb in two decades.



The Congress approved the program in 2005 and the winner will be chosen later this year according the design presented. The new ‘reliable replacement warhead’ will equip same explosive power as existing warheads and aims at replacing the U.S. aging arsenal.



Via: newsvine