{"id":1321,"date":"2004-09-05T12:55:04","date_gmt":"2004-09-05T19:55:04","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.edgewiseblog.com\/mjh\/uncategorized\/no-difference-part-2\/"},"modified":"2004-09-05T12:55:04","modified_gmt":"2004-09-05T19:55:04","slug":"no-difference-part-2","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.edgewiseblog.com\/mjh\/nada\/dump-duhbya\/no-difference-part-2\/","title":{"rendered":"No Difference? Part 2"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a title=\"A Look at Nuclear Issues\" href=\"http:\/\/www.abqjournal.com\/elex\/218334elex09-05-04.htm\">ABQjournal: Election 2004: A Look at Nuclear Issues<\/a> By John Fleck, Journal Staff Writer<\/p>\n<p>    John Kerry and George W. Bush offer voters a clear choice on what has become the central national debate about the future direction of the U.S. nuclear arsenal\u00e2 &#8212; the question of whether to pursue a new nuclear bomb designed to destroy underground enemy bunkers. &#8230;<\/p>\n<p>Bush&#8217;s administration is pushing for the design of a new nuclear bunker-busting bomb. &#8230;<\/p>\n<p>    &#8220;There is a clear military utility to this weapon,&#8221; Bush&#8217;s top nuclear weapons program manager, Linton Brooks, told a Senate committee in March.<\/p>\n<p>    Kerry opposes it.<\/p>\n<p>    &#8220;This is a weapon we don&#8217;t need,&#8221; Kerry countered in a June 1 campaign speech in Florida, &#8220;and it undermines our credibility in persuading other nations. What kind of a message does it send when we&#8217;re asking other countries not to develop nuclear weapons, but developing new ones ourselves?&#8221;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>ABQjournal: Election 2004: A Look at Nuclear Issues By John Fleck, Journal Staff Writer John Kerry and George W. Bush offer voters a clear choice on what has become the central national debate about the future direction of the U.S. nuclear arsenal\u00e2 &#8212; the question of whether to pursue a new nuclear bomb designed to &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.edgewiseblog.com\/mjh\/nada\/dump-duhbya\/no-difference-part-2\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">No Difference? Part 2<\/span> <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[6],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1321","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-dump-duhbya"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.edgewiseblog.com\/mjh\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1321","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.edgewiseblog.com\/mjh\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.edgewiseblog.com\/mjh\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.edgewiseblog.com\/mjh\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.edgewiseblog.com\/mjh\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1321"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.edgewiseblog.com\/mjh\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1321\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.edgewiseblog.com\/mjh\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1321"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.edgewiseblog.com\/mjh\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1321"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.edgewiseblog.com\/mjh\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1321"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}