This should encourage other countries to stop developing nuclear weapons

I guess if we had this weapon we would have nuked Saddam's bunker at the start of the war and then...he'd still be out there.

With many bills in play, including a far-reaching energy bill and reform of Medicare, Republicans are also quietly using the spending bills to embark on new initiatives.

House and Senate negotiators last week completed work on a $27.3 billion energy and water bill that provides $13.5 million for research on a new kind of nuclear weapon, known as the Robust Nuclear Earth Penetrator, or bunker buster.