Posted on 06/08/2005 6:30:12 PM PDT by rightcoast
UN ALERT AS NUCLEAR PLANS GO MISSING
Blueprints disclosing key steps to build a bomb feared up for sale
Ian Traynor in Vienna
Thursday June 9, 2005
Electronic drawings that give comprehensive details of how to build and test equipment essential for making nuclear bombs have vanished and could be put up for sale on the international black market, according to UN investigators.
The blueprints, running to hundreds of pages, show how to make centrifuges for enriching uranium. In addition, the investigators have been unable to trace key components for uranium centrifuge rigs and fear that drawings for a nuclear warhead have been secreted away and could be for sale.
Inspectors at the UN's nuclear authority, the International Atomic Energy Agency, have been investigating the worst nuclear smuggling racket ever uncovered, headed by the Pakistani scientist Abdul Qadeer Khan. The operation was discovered two years ago to be selling sensitive nuclear technology to Libya and Iran.
A senior official said several sets of blueprints for uranium centrifuges - the so-called P-1 and more advanced P-2 systems which were peddled by the Khan network - have gone missing.
(Excerpt) Read more at guardian.co.uk ...
No Problem, they're right next to the Rose Law Firm documents
Google is free.
Looks easy enough :-)
yup , a genuine class project , /srcsm
all your plan are belong to us
There just aren't words...
Did they look under the couch cushion?
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