FBI uses drones inside U.S. for spying, director says

Re:FBI uses drones inside U.S. for spying, director says by jlgreco on Thursday June 20, 2013 @06:57PM (#5915465)

> Nuclear weapons, like guns and cars, are just tools, and themselves not inherently evil.

True!

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Peaceful_nuclear_explosions#Sov... / http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Operation_Plowshare

Beyond the obvious (digging big holes fast) there are proposals for using them to extinguish particularly bad oil/gas fires (perhaps Centralia, Pennsylvania could be a use case?), stimulating natural gas production (this one is likely to be unpopular these days), and destroying large amounts of chemical weapons (and while you're at it, a nuke ;)).

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Re:FBI uses drones inside U.S. for spying, director says by westward on Thursday June 20, 2013 @09:53PM (#5916052)

Don't forget space travel! Both from within the gravity well and intra-solar. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Project_Orion_%28nuclear_propu...

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