Posted on 10/20/2002 1:57:56 PM PDT by Clodia Pulcher
In looking for international support, the Bush administration continues to argue that Saddam Hussein's Iraq may be close to creating a nuclear weapon. But after revelations about the extent of the North Korean atomic weapons program a more likely assumption may be that Iraq already has one or more.
Forgotten in the current speculation over progress in Iraq is the history of the United States' own atomic bomb program
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It's also occurred to me that perhaps North Korea, recognizing it's also on our axis of evil list, might share its efforts and equipment with the Iraqis.
If Saddam were close to having a plant that could make nukes the Israelis would have destroyed it. The last time Saddam was close they Jews bombed his plant to kingdom come their will be done.. Long before Saddam could get it operational.
Do you think that any people that hate us fail to see the possibilities of what the washingont sniper has accomplished. If we don't start kicking butt pretty soon. The saftest place in the US.. the one with the fewest snipers.. the place where you are least likely to be shot in the back .... will be the current Washington D.C. Area.
The day we know for certain that Iraq has the bomb will be the day that they have five or six in inventory, at least two already pre-positioned in, say, London and Paris, and a team ready to conduct a test detonation in Tel Aviv.
We can't afford to wait until we know that they have a nuke.
I think the whole issue of whether he has a nuke is a red herring. The only thing he could do with a nuke that he can't do with anthrax is render some fraction of the world's oil reserves unuseable. I'd rather have that than an anthrax attack.
After the war we decided we needed Heisenberg nearly as much as Werner Von Braun. So cover stories were invented. Among them that he was realy opposed to Hitler and kept the Germans from making a bomb with purposeful math errors.
The truth was several people tried to get him out of germany in the 1930's and he refused to come out. He was not opposed to Hitler.
We killed and or imprisoned most German leaders as war criminals except for the ones we needed. For those we made cover stories.
The Russians got a number of the German Nuclear Scientist. They were the ones that created the Soviet bombs.
It is interesting to note that former German Scientists under the NATZI regime did both the American missiles and the Soviet atomic bombs.
Not just the scientists, but a great deal of their equipment as well. Arnold Engineering and Development Center (an Air Force base in Middle Tennessee) has a lot of the Nazi wind tunnel equipment. We took a tour there in 1981 in my high school electronics class. The tunnel techs pointed out different parts of the equipment that still had the Reich Eagle and swastikas on them - covered in paint, but still standing out.
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