Just what do you call a 700-ton conventional explosive?
Plans for a Pentagon-led experiment that involves detonating 700 tons of explosives in the desert drew criticism from state leaders and a disarmament activist.
The explosion scheduled for June 2 at the Nevada Test Site is part of an effort to design a weapon that can penetrate solid rock formations in which a country might store nuclear weapons or other weapons of mass destruction.
I'll bet one or two thug states are running their calculations again about whether they've dug deep enough to be safe. And at what point does a bomb get big enough to seal an underground facility even if we can't penetrate to it and outright destroy it?
And more to the point, why would anybody but the Pillsbury Nuke Boy in Pyongyang and Ahmadinejad object to it? I guess the "disarmament activist" just wants America to disarm of even conventional weapons since this weapon is designed to disarm nuclear weapons. He's probably a "peace activist" too, no doubt.
UPDATE: A post in which I contemplate the term "weaponize."
