In light of Commander Liberty's newfound assertions that Iran must not be allowed to obtain "the knowledge" to build a nookuleer bomb, there is only one thing to say: Hello!?!? Has everybody forgotten that Chimpy McDrinky has already given the secrets of building an atomic bomb not only to Iran, but to every evil empire in the world when he put up a website that contained information that was captured in Iraq?
The New York Times called the material a "nuclear primer' because it included about a dozen documents in Arabic that contained "charts, diagrams, equations and lengthy narratives about bomb building that nuclear experts who have viewed them say go beyond what is available elsewhere 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." The fear was that these documents would give Iraq's nuclear secrets to Iran and thus aid the Iranian WMD program. WikipediaBut wait, if you order right now, we will throw in a dash of hypocrisy absolutely free! After exhibiting such fine judgement with Iraq, our morally and intellectually superior government has said that it's just peachy for Libya to have what we say Iran can't, a brand new nookuleer power program
The United States gave its blessing Monday to a civilian nuclear energy deal between France and Libya, saying it expected its former foe to respect its decision to renounce weapons of mass destruction.Ummm....excuse me? But it gets even better. The fundies' prayers for the imminent Rapture could be answered soon:
Pakistan's military vowed a strong response to any international attempt to seize its atomic arsenal as the army successfully test-fired a nuclear-capable cruise missile on Tuesday.Feeling safer yet?
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When I was too little to dream that one day I would comment on the intertrubes, my teachers told us to duck and cover. If we covered hour heads when the atom bombs rained down, we'd be ok.
The "knowledge" to make nuclear bombs? Crap, *I* (and anybody else who survived college Physics 101 class) have the knowledge to make nuclear bombs. That's probably about 100 million people worldwide who have the knowledge to make nuclear bombs. So why doesn't everybody and their uncle have a nuclear bomb? Well, simple. Because a nuclear bomb without fissile materials to build it with is, uhm, not a nuclear bomb. And fissile materials are damned hard to come by -- enriching a few tons of U235 to create the first U.S. atomic bomb took a double-digit portion of the U.S. GDP in the early 1940's, and extracting Pu-239 out of a nuclear reactor requires a very expensive and difficult to build bunch of instructure (a heavy water plant, a fuel reprocessing plant, and the nuclear reactor itself) that's easy to detect being built.
So if it's a War on Knowledge that Dear Leader wants to wage, he needs to bomb MIT and Stanford first...
- Badtux the Knowledgable Penguin
Well said 'badtux'! It's the unavailability of MATERIALS, NOT the unavailability of KNOWLEDGE which prevents the construction of nuclear weapons nowadays. The 'knowledge' ruse is just another transparent red herring/distraction tactic of Cheney/Bush.
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