From: "Rich Gauszka" 

Wanna be a nuclear terrorist ? - let the Bushies and congressional
Republicans show you how.

http://www.startribune.com/484/story/785309.html

 Last March, the federal government set up a website to make public a vast
archive of Iraqi documents captured during the war. The Bush administration
did so under pressure from congressional Republicans who said they hoped to
find new evidence of the prewar dangers posed by Saddam Hussein.

But in recent weeks, the site has posted some documents that weapons
experts say present a danger themselves: detailed accounts of Iraq's secret
nuclear research before the 1991 Persian Gulf War.

The documents, the experts say, constitute a basic guide to construction of
an atom bomb.

The government shut the site down on Thursday after complaints from weapons
experts and arms-control officials.

The documents, roughly a dozen in number, contain charts, diagrams,
equations and lengthy narratives about bomb building that the nuclear
experts say go beyond what is available elsewhere on the Internet and in
other public forums.

"Phil Payne"  wrote in
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>
http://www.nytimes.com/2006/11/03/world/middleeast/03documents.html?hp&ex=116
2530000&en=1511d6b3da302d4f&ei=5094&partner=homepage
>
> "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 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.
>
> "For the U.S. to toss a match into this flammable area is very
> irresponsible," said A. Bryan Siebert, a former director of classification
> at the federal Department of Energy, which runs the nation's nuclear arms
> program. "There's a lot of things about nuclear weapons that are secret
> and
> should remain so."
>
> Hmmm.  Might have saved the Iranians a bit of effort.
>
>
> "The government had received earlier warnings about the contents of the
> Web
> site. Last spring, after the site began posting old Iraqi documents about
> chemical weapons, United Nations arms-control officials in New York won
> the
> withdrawal of a report that gave information on how to make tabun and
> sarin,
> nerve agents that kill by causing respiratory failure.
>
> The campaign for the online archive was mounted by conservative
> publications
> and politicians, who said that the nation's spy agencies had failed
> adequately to analyze the 48,000 boxes of documents seized since the March
> 2003 invasion."
>
>
> --
>  Phil Payne
>  http://www.isham-research.co.uk
>  +44 7833 654 800
>
>
>

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