Obama administration spending billions on new global strike
weapons  By Bill Van Auken 24 April 2010  The Obama
administration is spending billions of dollars to develop new
weapons systems, including powerful conventional warhead
missiles capable of striking any target in the world within less
than an hour.  The US Air Force carried out two separate test
launches April 22—one at Vandenberg Air Force Base in
California, and the other at Cape Canaveral, Florida—designed to
further the development of these weapons systems.  The first
system, known as Conventional Prompt Global Strike, or CPGS,
would be capable of striking anywhere across the globe within
under an hour of a launch order, using intercontinental
ballistic missiles fired from the US to deliver conventional
warheads against targets in other countries.  Capable of
striking a target with an impact speed of up to 4,000 feet per
second and a payload of up to 8,000 pounds, these warheads would
be able to obliterate everything within a 3,000-foot radius.