The Bush administration has abandoned research into a nuclear "bunker-buster" warhead 70 times more powerful than the bomb dropped on Hiroshima, deciding instead to pursue a similar device using conventional weaponry.
Republican senator Pete Domenici said funding for the nuclear bunker-buster had been dropped at the request of the Energy Department.
The nuclear bunker-buster had been the focus of intense debate in Congress, with opponents arguing that its development as a tactical nuclear weapon could add to nuclear proliferation.
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