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Saturday, October 21, 2006


Amarillo: home of quarter horses, cows, and plutonium research.
The nuclear arms plant near Amarillo could see an enhanced weapons dismantlement role and compete to become a center for plutonium research, according to a National Nuclear Security Administration plan.

The Pantex Plant is to keep nuclear weapons assembly, dismantlement and high-explosives fabrication, according to the NNSA proposal. The plan calls for maintaining but would still reduce weapons assembly capacity and high-explosives fabrication work at Pantex.

Thomas D'Agostino, the NNSA's deputy administrator for defense programs, said Pantex will focus more on dismantlement as the U.S. scales back its inventory to between 1,700 and 2,200 operational nuclear weapons by 2012.
What?!? Only 2,000 operational nukes? What if Liechtenstein gets the bomb? Is that going to be enough to deter them?



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