[Boundless]

Expect the Legacy Media to focus on the "1" number,
and not the "142" number.

Also expect them to deprecate the "1" number with
arguments like: "Well, that was no threat. He wouldn't
even have been able to test it." Testing is not needed.

Keep in mind that the US did not test its Uranium gun-type
bomb either. The Hiroshima device was tested on Hiroshima.
They are that simple. What we tested at Trinity was the
Plutonium implosion-type device later used on Nagasaki.

[Gondring]

But those weapons still required enrichment. The yellowcake is just milled uranium ore, U₃O₈, right? That's why the US focused on the centrifuges (although we tended to focus on the high-tech ones, and Saddam could have used lower-tech ones).

President Bush made a terrible error in focusing on the WMD the way he did, and not on the simple fact that Saddam was ignoring resolutions and the cease-fire agreement.

[RobbyS]

Reminding me of the feverish activity of the Manhattan Project. We simply did not know how far along Hitler's atomic project had progressed. We knew he was working on it, and we knew that German scientists were theoretically capable of producing one. We NOW knew he didn't have one. Suppose he had have one. He could have stopped the invasion of Germany at a stroke.

[Paul_Denton]

Exactly. Enriching uranium is the only hard part. Making a gun-type bomb is very simple.