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Iran Testing Advanced Nuclear Warhead Designs
UK Guardian/World Threats ^ | 11/6/2009

Posted on 11/06/2009 10:45:39 AM PST by oldskuulconserv

Some troubling news has come out from the British Guardian. According to sources in the International Atomic Energy Agency, Iranian scientists have been working on a nuclear warhead design which makes it easier to miniaturize the bomb. This allows the warhead to be placed on a missile for deployment.

Western weapons experts say there are no such civilian applications, but the use of co-ordinated detonations in nuclear warheads is well known. They compress the fissile core, or pit, of the warhead until it reaches critical mass.

(Excerpt) Read more at worldthreats.com ...


TOPICS: Foreign Affairs; Government
KEYWORDS: iran; miniaturize; nuclearweapons
this is bad-- real bad
1 posted on 11/06/2009 10:45:39 AM PST by oldskuulconserv
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To: oldskuulconserv

Liberal Talking: “It is just that war monger Cheney again, he is using his CIA contacts to insert false news stories in the foreign press. Iran is a peaceful country that just wants Israel to make peace with the Arab World.”

They aren’t going to do anything till a bomb goes off. Then they will say, too late to do anything because they have the bomb and we need to deal with reality.

These enablers make me sick. Don’t they get it that leadership means shaping the reality of tomorrow and not being a victim to it?


2 posted on 11/06/2009 10:51:25 AM PST by dila813
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To: oldskuulconserv

bump


3 posted on 11/06/2009 10:52:37 AM PST by Captain Beyond (The Hammer of the gods! (Just a cool line from a Led Zep song))
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To: oldskuulconserv
Hold everything! Wasn't there a report just last year that said Iran had given up it's nuclear weapons program?

/sarc

I guess when Washington suddenly become 10 million degrees, it won't be due to global warming.

4 posted on 11/06/2009 10:52:52 AM PST by The Sons of Liberty (FUBO - When 0bama Fails, Freedom Prevails!)
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Don’t they need to test their material and bomb first? ie) an underground test, as we saw India, Pak, N. Korea do?


5 posted on 11/06/2009 10:53:48 AM PST by PGR88
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F&F repeatedly incorrectly reported this as ‘test of a nuclear weapon’...

Sheeesssshhhhh......


6 posted on 11/06/2009 10:56:21 AM PST by Uncle Ike (Rope is cheap, and there are lots of trees...)
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To: oldskuulconserv

Thread from earlier today, still on the “Breaking News” pane:

http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2379995/posts


7 posted on 11/06/2009 10:57:41 AM PST by PreciousLiberty
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“Our nuclear projects are only related to the production of energy...”

Israel: GREEN LIGHT

Better that than a yellow/red one...


8 posted on 11/06/2009 10:58:46 AM PST by DoughtyOne (Unseal the lock box containing every document pertaining to Obama's life, TODAY!)
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To: Uncle Ike

That wasn’t incorrect, it was a nuclear weapon test without the nuclear material present. The test pit can be inert, examining it after the test will tell if the bomb would have worked.


9 posted on 11/06/2009 11:01:35 AM PST by PreciousLiberty
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To: oldskuulconserv

I am sure O is worried about his tee time tomorrow.


10 posted on 11/06/2009 11:09:08 AM PST by b4its2late (Before you can control a horse, you have to break it. Sound familiar?)
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To: PGR88

To be blunt, no. Analogy: You don’t have to test black powder before smokeless (gun) powder if you know how to make both.


11 posted on 11/06/2009 11:16:36 AM PST by piytar (Screw you NRC, Steele, Graham, and the rest of the lib-loser GOP. WE'RE TAKING OUR PARTY BACK!)
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To: oldskuulconserv

Miniaturizing the A-bomb also allows them to MIRV their missiles.


12 posted on 11/06/2009 11:18:37 PM PST by sonofstrangelove ("We will either find a way, or make one."Hannibal/Carthaginian Military Commander)
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