From: Adam <""4thwormcastfromthemolehill\"{at}the field.near
the bridge">

Steve Ewing wrote:
> On Sun, 21 May 2006 13:58:14 -0400, Phil Payne
>  wrote:
>
>> http://www.breitbart.com/news/2006/05/21/D8HO8FD82.html
>>
>> "Iran is just a few months away from acquiring the technological know-
>> how
>> that will allow it to build an atomic bomb, Israeli Prime Minister Ehud
>> Olmert said in an interview broadcast Sunday."
>>
>> The sky is falling!  The sky is falling!
>>
>> What bollocks.  Still I can imagine a vast majority of Americans will
>> swallow this as well.
>
> I don't boubt they already have the "technicalogical
know-how", courtesy
> of what's-his-name the Pakistani.

Oppenheimer? Einstein? oh you mean Khan.....problem is that the tech etc is
no just so old that frankly almost any country could become a nuke power.

2 things have really change & a 3'rd is on it's way

1) Computer controlled machine tools are now not just "here" but
increasingly the norm.

2) Materials science has improved & now what was "exotic &
hard to work" is now found all over the place (e.g. look at what leaks
out of a dead pc in a landfill).

The 3'rd thing is "greenhouse gas emission" where nuke power
stations don't give off co2 or methane & are thus going to become more
popular.

Adam
 That doesn't mean they have the
> equipment or material to build one, or are even close.
>
> --Steve 
> http://www.qmss.com/~sewing

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