[gb63]

"The documents, roughly a dozen in number, contain charts, diagrams, equations and lengthy narratives about bomb building that nuclear experts who have viewed them say go beyond what is available on the Internet and in other public forums. For instance, the papers give detailed information on how to build nuclear firing circuits and triggering explosives, as well as the radioactive cores of atom bombs.

http://www.nytimes.com/2006/11/03/world/middleeast/03documents.html?ei=5094&en=1511d6b3da302d4f&hp=&ex=1162530000&partner=homepage&pagewanted=print

Again, I personally read this kind of information years ago in a publication telling how to make a bomb. Big Deal. Let's see you make one now.

[oceanview]

60 year old technology.

the issue for all the nuclear wanna-be states - is their ability to grow and enrich the material needed to make the cores. and they have to build infrastructure to do that - reactors, centrifuges, etc. the firing circuit and triggering mechanism, is the least of their concerns.

[tobyhill]

The point is that Saddam wasn't supposed to have this know how and it was up to the IAEA to assure he didn't.