Posted on 10/03/2009 1:21:37 PM PDT by maquiladora
Senior staff members of the United Nations nuclear agency have concluded in a confidential analysis that Iran has acquired “sufficient information to be able to design and produce a workable” atom bomb.
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Two years ago, American intelligence agencies published a detailed report concluding that Tehran halted its efforts to design a nuclear weapon in 2003. But in recent months, Britain has joined France, Germany and Israel in disputing that conclusion, saying the work has been resumed.
A senior American official said last week that the United States was now re-evaluating its 2007 conclusions.
The atomic agency’s report also presents evidence that beyond improving upon bomb-making information gathered from rogue nuclear experts around the world, Iran has done extensive research and testing on how to fashion the components of a weapon. It does not say how far that work has progressed.
The report, titled “Possible Military Dimensions of Iran’s Nuclear Program,” was produced in consultation with a range of nuclear weapons experts inside and outside the agency. It draws a picture of a complex program, run by Iran’s Ministry of Defense, “aimed at the development of a nuclear payload to be delivered using the Shahab 3 missile system,” Iran’s medium-range missile, which can strike the Middle East and parts of Europe. The program, according to the report, apparently began in early 2002.
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Weapons grade Uranium!! So easy a cave man could do it.
Oh sheesh! With hundreds of Ex-Soviet scientists and help from the Pakistani and North Korean nuke-proliferators, getting the data to make a bomb is probably the easiest part!
Where is Captian Obvious!?
Show me what Muhammad brought that was new and there you will find things only evil and inhuman, such as the command to spread by the sword the faith he preached.
I think their "slow progress toward" is all for show.
Now there’s a shocker!
“Where is Captian Obvious!?”
He works for the NYTwits now.
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A senior American official said last week that the United States was now re-evaluating its 2007 conclusions.
Ha! Like anyone believed the "American intelligence agencies" who were just trying to undermine Bush.
Well it IS 70 year old technology, how hard can it be?
“A senior American official said last week that the United States was now re-evaluating its 2007 conclusions.”
- getting in line with the Europeans for one last diplomatic push before Israel pulls the trigger?
And what is the news here? That the left is starting to realize it might have a problem...or...?
Russia only cares about Russia.
Russia wants a destabilized middle east. They are sitting on huge oil reserves and they need the hard cash that comes with them. If Iran keeps going until they get bombed, and Iran can get off a few decent shots back, then Russia wins big-time.
That is ALL Russia cares about.
Information is one thing, engineering experience is another.
The USA built three bombs starting from basic principles in a few years of concentrated effort, it was the engineering, not the science, that held things up.
Leo Szillard saw a bomb within an hour of his learning of the discovery of the neutron. It was quite a while before someone turned the concept into Trinity, the biggest problem being hydrodynamics.
They’ll need to solve problems like “how do I machine a toxic pyrophoric metal that may go critical if I allow too much neutron reflectors near it” and “just how sensitive must the primary be” and things like that.
I just had a thought, maybe the commission just read the list of what Hazel O’Leary declassified?
agree
So?
We have the Messiah to talk them into submission.
The battle of the titans.
That’s the ulterior agenda of the Russkies.
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