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How is this a good idea?

The Bush administration is expected to announce next week a major step forward in the building of the country’s first new nuclear warhead in nearly two decades. It will propose combining elements of competing designs from two weapons laboratories in an approach that some experts argue is untested and risky.

The announcement, to be made by the inter-agency Nuclear Weapons Council, avoids making a choice between two competing designs for a new weapon, called the Reliable Replacement Warhead, which at first would be mounted on submarine-launched missiles. The effort, if approved by President Bush and financed by Congress, would require a huge refurbishment of the nation’s complex for nuclear design and manufacturing, with the overall bill estimated at more than $100 billion.

I'm not going to go on an anti-nuke weapons tirade here but are we really developing more advanced nuclear weapons? This technology hasn't been perfected yet? Seriously, how can you further develop bombs whose sole purpose is to destroy everything? And spending $100 billion ... c'mon guys, if you want to give another handout to your buddies in the military/industrial complex, fine, but can't we at least do it with something that could actually help us with the wars that we are fighting now and not the Cold War? How about $100 billion for advanced body armor or even maybe some kind of super advanced explosive detector.