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Secret mini nukes meeting revealed { August 7 2003 } Original Source Link: (May no longer be active)    http://www.abc.net.au/news/newsitems/s919524.htm http://www.abc.net.au/news/newsitems/s919524.htm Last Update: Thursday, August 7, 2003. 4:29pm (AEST) 'Secret' nuclear meeting revealed Arms control groups say the development of mini nuclear weapons will be discussed tomorrow at a top level meeting in the United States. The conference is taking place at the Strategic Air Command Headquarters at an air base near the city of Omaha in Nebraska. The BBC reports the meeting was supposed to take place in secret. The US Defence Department has now acknowledged that the meeting in Nebraska involves 150 people, including officials, technicians and scientists. Arms control groups are convinced they will discuss the new generation of nuclear weapons. It is already clear, through testimonies to Congress and elsewhere, what direction many experts want the defence establishment to take. They want to move towards the development of small, low-yield weapons, or 'mini nukes'. They would be designed to burrow themselves deep underground before exploding. That is in tune with President Bush's doctrine that the US should be capable of carrying out controlled pre-emptive strikes on hidden weapons of mass destruction.

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