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IAEA chief ElBaradei slams U.S. "mini nuke" plans

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VIENNA (Reuters) - The head of the U.N. nuclear watchdog sharply criticised Washington's planned research into a new type of small nuclear bomb, saying on Wednesday it would send the wrong signal to states considering atomic weapons.

"I had strong reservations, to say the least, when I read that there are plans to research small nukes," International Atomic Energy Agency (IAEA) chief Mohamed ElBaradei told U.S. National Public Radio. (...)

The Threat of Low-Yield Earth-Penetrating Nuclear Weapons to Civilian Populations: Nuclear “Bunker Busters” and Their Medical Consequences

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Introduction

The imminence of “pre-emptive” war against Iraq has raised concerns about the weapons that may be used to destroy underground command centers and alleged underground storage sites for chemical and biological weapons.1 Such sites may be deeply buried and “hardened,” protected by large amounts of steel-reinforced concrete designed to withstand the effects of aerial bombardment with conventional weapons. Earth-penetrating weapons – EPWs or “bunker busters” – are designed to hit the earth at high speed and to penetrate into the ground before exploding. Earth penetration increases the damage done to underground targets by "coupling" the energy of the explosion to the ground. (...)

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