Unfortunately, it's relatively simple to build a nuke. The tough part is finding enriched uranium.
http://www.beloit.edu/~belmag/03fall/03fall_features/03fall_dobson.html
Guess these college kids didn't go to Niger on spring break!
That's why the posting of the plans is not as catastrophic as it was made out to be. No, they shouldn't have been posted. But the Times has endorsed the view that these are a grand threat. It's the idea of Saddam's danger that's underlined.
Logic 101. Having these plans makes you a danger. Saddam had the plans. therefore he is a danger.
The larger point of the NY Times story is that it showed Joe Wilson to be a friggen liar, and vindicated the Bush administration.