Here, from the Wisconsin Project on Nuclear Arms Control, is a recent description of Iraq's nuclear program in the 1990s and before, based on U.N. inspection reports: "Iraq claimed that it gave no serious consideration to the simpler, gun-type uranium bomb that the United States dropped on Hiroshima. Iraq ran the computer codes pertinent to these designs on a Japanese NEC 750 computer located at Tuwaitha, which was moved to the National Computer Center after the Gulf war [emphasis added]. Iraq also experimented with high explosives to produce implosive shock waves and developed a 32-point electronic firing system using detonators developed at Al Qaqaa."
Mr. Henninger is deputy editor of The Wall Street Journal's editorial page. His column appears Fridays in the Journal and on OpinionJournal.com.
This I gotta check out.....
Fireset Development and Testing
ISG obtained limited corroboration of previously reported, pre-1991 fi reset development status. No new information regarding fi reset development was found. ISG found no evidence that Iraq continued fi reset development or testing after 1991.
• An Iraqi scientist reported to ISG that development of one complete 32-point fi reset directly applicable to nuclear weapon detonation initiation was completed prior to February 1990. A second fi reset was being assembled and environmentally hardened in 1990 but was never completed. Work on both fi resets was ceased in April 1991, and the fi resets were evacuated to a safehouse and later returned to Al Atheer. One fi reset was reported to be exhumed from rubble at Al Atheer in 1996 or 1997 and was turned over to inspectors. ISG confi rmed that this information is consistent with that previously reported by Iraq. ISG has not been able to independently confi rm the disposition of the second fi reset reported to have been assembled in the pre-1991 nuclear program.
An excellent find, bump.
Seant Hannity just mentioned that NBC is reporting they had someone with the Troop Unit (I think the 103rd) when they reached this area in the beginning of the war and there were NOthing there
Sean says NBC will be reporting further about this tomorrow