Paging Dr. Strangelove

Or, how I learned to stop worrying and love the bomb...by drinking heavily.

Inside Bay Area - Oakland Tribune - Local News

For the first time in more than 20 years, U.S. nuclear-weapons scientists are designing a new H-bomb, the first of probably several new nuclear explosives on the drawing boards.

If they succeed, in perhaps 20 or 25 more years, the United States would have an entirely new nuclear arsenal, and a highly automated factory capable of turning out more warheads as needed, as well as new kinds of warheads.

"We are on the verge of an exciting time," the nation's top nuclear weapons executive, Linton Brooks, said last week at Lawrence Livermore weapons design laboratory.

It used to be Pontiac that built excitement, but now it's Livermore Labs. Their kind of excitement, however, is very short-lived--it lasts only as long as it takes the blast to vaporize your brain.

Dear Leader! I can walk!

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