While telling Iran not to make Nukes, U.S. still develops more [View All]

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Even as he was telling Iran not to produce nuclear weapons, President Bush was urging Congress to pay for a new nuclear weapon designed to destroy underground military facilities.

Although the nuclear "bunker-buster" is still on the drawing board, Iran can be expected to charge the United States with atomic hypocrisy during this war of words.

No less than a conservative Republican from Ohio, Rep. David L. Hobson, has thwarted Bush's push for the bunker-buster for the past two years. Hobson chairs a House subcommittee that appropriates money for the nuclear weapons complex. He persuaded the House not to spend a cent for research on the bunker-buster. The Senate followed.

What worries him most about this weapon, Hobson has said, "is that some idiot might try to use it."