[Smogger]

"But it seems to indicate he had an active program to develop them."

And also that he's a lonnnnnnnnnnng way away from building any.

And, if he was trying to develop one, doesn't that suggest that he was unable to obtain one?

I would guess that he is trying to acquire, develop, modify, retrofit, reverse engineer, or whatever. One of the articles I have read about the subject suggested that what they have actually done was to obtain an existing device and rather than bypass the safeguards on the device they disassembled it to obtain the enriched uranium-232. So that they could use it in a device which they were constructing.

Who knows? I assume the worst.

Did you read the articles about the Pakistani nuclear scientist who was helping them and was arrested by Pakistan? I can post them if you would like. You can search for them though.

Ask yourself this. If you don't have any fissionable material and your not constructing an a-bomb what the hell do you need a nuclear scientist for?

[Peach]

We have to operate as though he already has the capability to destroy us. Then we will work all the harder at destroying him and his network first.

[okie01]

"If you don't have any fissionable material and your not constructing an a-bomb what the hell do you need a nuclear scientist for?"

Perhaps they were just sharing recipes for goats...?

I agree there is reason for concern and that continued caution is advisable. But the material the British reporter came across has nothing serious to do with constructing a device.

[Dan Day]

Ask yourself this. If you don't have any fissionable material and your not constructing an a-bomb what the hell do you need a nuclear scientist for?

Feasibility studies.