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Friday, 04/28/2006 4:59:58 AM

Friday, April 28, 2006 4:59:58 AM

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Pentagon end-run around NUKE test ban...

Apr 27, 2006 -- “Divine Strake”—the strange name for a scheduled test blast of 700 tons of explosives on Western Shoshone land in Nevada on June 2 — is nothing but a Pentagon end-run around the ban on nuclear weapons testing. It is scheduled at a time when a wing of the U.S. military and political establishment is considering the use of a new generation of tactical nuclear “bunker-busters”....

Investigative journalist Seymour Hersh reported in the April 17 edition of the New Yorker magazine that the Pentagon brass are arguing about whether or not to drop such a “bunker-buster” bomb on Iran’s main centrifuge plant at Natanz, some 200 miles south of Tehran....

http://www.workers.org/2006/us/nuke-test-0504/