Robust Nuclear Earth Penetrator Budget Request and Plan, FY2005-FY2009
Description:
Earth penetrator weapons often called “bunker busters,” burrow into the ground
some tens of feet before detonating, greatly increasing their ability to destroy buried
targets. The United States has several types of conventional earth penetrators. The
current U.S. nuclear earth penetrator, the B61-11 bomb, cannot penetrate certainly
types of terrain in which hardened underground facilities may be located, so the Air
Force and the National Nuclear Security Administration (NNSA) are studying a mor…
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Date:
January 10, 2005
Creator:
Medalia, Jonathan
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