Size of minivan and weighing 10,000 pounds, the B53 was on B-52s
AMARILLO, Texas — The last of the United States' most powerful nuclear bombs — a weapon hundreds of times stronger than the bomb dropped on Hiroshima — is being disassembled nearly half a century after it was put into service at the height of the Cold War.
The final components of the B53 bomb will be broken down Tuesday at the Pantex Plant near Amarillo, Texas, the nation's only nuclear weapons assembly and disassembly facility. The completion of the dismantling program is a year ahead of schedule, according to the U.S. Department of Energy's National Nuclear Security Administration, and aligns with President Barack Obama's goal of reducing the number of nuclear weapons.
Thomas D'Agostino, the nuclear administration's chief, called the bomb's elimination a "significant milestone."
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one only has to look at the signs...obama kills the enemies of radical islam. radical islam flourishes. we disarm. we die.
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Yes, because all the nuclear bombs we have left can't possibly defend us from Islamic extremists with rocket launchers and ak-47s. As it is we have a stockpile big enough to destroy every major city on the planet.
For being a killer of enemies of radical islam, Obama killed a lot of radical islamists.
Yeah Obama disarm us so we can't defend ourselves. Then you and the communists can take over without ever firing a shot.
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