I heard the news today. That’s because I get up earlier. Part of a program of working smarter.
On the news was a single Reuters story, just spoken from the telegram, no commentary or anything, this was “the news”. It was a note on that the Defense Ministry of the United States of America are developing new weapons called “bunker busters.” Piercing atomic bombs, to take out deep targets.
Tac-nukes are not called that anymore.
The idea of having “little nukes” is like being a little pregnant: there is no such thing.
Newspeak for tactical nuclear weapons is the unsavoury “bunker buster” – a reference to the dam busters of WW2. Everything from World War II is fine to make heroic computer games out of, and the intended train of thought this piece of newspeak has might be:
> We had dam busters during the war and took out dams. What if we had been able to take out the Führer bunker, too? We woulda needed a bunker buster.
Tac-nukes to pave the road to peace?
A Google Image Search for “bunker buster” turns up a lot of fighter bomber porn.
BBC graphic of how the thinking goes:
