[Enchante]

Iran pushes onward with its nuclear weapons programs and the world fiddles.... now we have the tough Chamberlain-Demagogues in power ready to show their fortitude in "talking" with Ah'm'a-whackoff..... what a world.

p.s. Is the IAEA really still having trouble with understanding such "unexplained" radioactive traces????

[Grampa Dave]

No problem, Piglosi/Reid/Kennedy/Murtha/Boxer/Kerry/Levin will be able handle these minor nusiances via their nuancing.

This not a real problem will be turned over to the UN after Bolton is not approved.

[Pirate21]

Is the IAEA really still having trouble with understanding such "unexplained" radioactive traces????

Maybe the IAEA has been around these "traces" a little too long.

[Marine_Uncle]

Iran has no active nuclear reactor online as of yet that it could use to eventually extract plutonium from spent fuel rods. And that process if all was totally operationoal would be a few years down the pike, assuming they did not return the fuel rods to the Russians as they are supposed to do. They are still in the very early phase of engineering and actually assembling a sufficiently large enough series cascade gas centrifuge system capable of producing sufficient amounts of highly enriched uranium, where I am talking about a percentage in the high eightees or low nineties which would provide them with what we call weapon grade uranium.
Therefore, they either have gotten very small amounts of plutonium form say NK, China, Russia, or Pakistan for experimenting with, e.g. nuclear hot lab processes for instance, or they have accquire the stuff via. some other means.
But the article does not disclose as usual any usefull information. What percent of U235 of a given amount was dedected. What amount of plutonium was detected. Are we talking about microcuries amounts where some piece of equipment obtained elsewhere may have had a tiny bit of residual of either atttached to it.
I am not going to knee jerk. To much knee jerking was done by us last year.
That does not mean I am insensitive to their plans to eventually obtain the techniques to fabricate some low yield atom weapon. They could eventually obtain that level of sophistication.

[nopardons]

I heard this on Brit's show tonight. At least this IS getting some play here.