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UN Alert As Nuclear Plans Go Missing
The Guardian ^ | Thursday, June 9, 2005 | Ian Traynor

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 ...


TOPICS: Crime/Corruption; Foreign Affairs; Government; News/Current Events; War on Terror
KEYWORDS: aqkhan; iaea; loosenukes; loosnukes; missing; nuclearblackmarket; nuclearweapons; unitednations; urenco; wmd
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To: rightcoast

No Problem, they're right next to the Rose Law Firm documents


21 posted on 06/08/2005 9:11:13 PM PDT by MJY1288 ( By Comparison...."Dingy" Harry Reid makes Tom Daschle look like a Statesman)
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To: rightcoast
....drawings for a nuclear warhead have been secreted away and could be for sale.

Google is free.


22 posted on 06/08/2005 9:15:25 PM PDT by Delta 21 (MKC USCG -ret)
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To: Optimist
You will find zee plans on Fantasy Island...
23 posted on 06/08/2005 9:16:30 PM PDT by NautiNurse ("I'd rather see someone go to work for a Republican campaign than sit on their butt."--Howard Dean)
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To: Delta 21

Looks easy enough :-)


24 posted on 06/08/2005 9:18:02 PM PDT by MJY1288 ( By Comparison...."Dingy" Harry Reid makes Tom Daschle look like a Statesman)
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To: MJY1288

yup , a genuine class project , /srcsm


25 posted on 06/08/2005 9:34:55 PM PDT by Dad yer funny
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To: Delta 21

all your plan are belong to us


26 posted on 06/08/2005 11:22:25 PM PDT by Optimist (I think I'm beginning to see a pattern here.)
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To: rightcoast

There just aren't words...


27 posted on 06/09/2005 4:25:33 AM PDT by mewzilla
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To: Delta 21
(slapping head) Oh! Lithium 6. D'oh!
28 posted on 06/09/2005 4:31:48 AM PDT by SlowBoat407 (A living affront to Islam since 1959)
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To: rightcoast

Did they look under the couch cushion?


29 posted on 06/10/2005 5:44:11 AM PDT by Mikey_1962
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