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WATER ABLAZE - Patagonia Sin Represas

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“If you do not use your eyes for seeing<br />

with, you will need them<br />

to cry with.”<br />

Jean Paul Sartre (1905-1980), French author and philosopher<br />

11.9 Bunker-Buster “Mini-Nukes” – Particulate Matter<br />

Is Released on Impact<br />

At the same time, another kind of weapon is being developed further,<br />

the so-called bunker-busting munitions or “mini-nukes”. Here too, the<br />

high density of the uranium is intended to create a weapon, or rather a<br />

cruise missile, which is able to penetrate the concrete walls of bunkers,<br />

with similar consequences for the environment to the ones described<br />

earlier in connection with depleted uranium, where vast amounts of<br />

radioactive respirable dust are released. Scientists are working roundthe-clock<br />

to improve these weapons. “Mini-nukes” are part of the<br />

concept of a first nuclear strike, which – among other things – is valid<br />

NATO doctrine. One of the latest inventions in this line is the Taurus<br />

cruise missile, a weapon of attack, stationed at Büchel military airbase<br />

in Germany. It can be discharged from German Tornados, before<br />

cruising alone for over 500km and finally being guided by satellite<br />

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