Dude. Any half way competent engineer can figure out how to build a crude, but very deadly and destructive nuke in a few hours via public libraries, or today, the Internet. To put it bluntly, building a nuke is not "rocket science."
The basic knowledge hasn't been "secret" since the 1950s. Understand even a little about physics, and it is not all that complex. The only hard part is getting the materials necessary. That is also very expensive which is why nukes have been the sole property of nation-states and not the stuff of the Unibomber or Timothy McVeigh.
It's also why we have a thing called non-proliferation. It's not the knowledge. It's the materials.
You said so much better what I have been trying to point out on this and another thread about this. Thanks.
I repeat what I wrote to Strategy dude:
"Iran was already well into their nuclear weapons 'program' long before these 'summaries' were posted on a website...were they not?
Are you and the NYT going to argue that Iran's whole nuclear weapons infrastructure was built between March 19, 2003-October 2006??
Are you going to argue that they built the whole program... not ever knowing if they would ever be able to find info on the internet(compliments of Saddam Hussein and the USA) in order to complete it?
Good grief..you would have to be an absolute fool to believe this dribble!!
Dude. That may be true but it's also irrelevant when the New Yawk Slimes is slamming President Bush and talking down to the mentally challenged living among us who will be voting on Tuesday while believing that President Bush told the terrorists how to build a nuke "on da intanet." The New Yawk Times said it so it must be true.
That's a bit misleading.
There is a big difference between "crude" device and other more effective devices, like ones that are small enough to fit onto missiles.
Saddam had many of the needed materials on hand.