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To: Cindy
Centrifuges (cyclotrons) contributed U235 to the Hiroshima bomb in 1945, and Iran has modern centrifuges today.

A centrifuge is not a cyclotron and as far as I know from reading quite a lot about the Manhattan Project, neither of these was involved in obtaining the U235 for the Hiroshima bomb. The Manhattan Project used gaseous diffusion and calutrons (large mass spectrometers).

14 posted on 11/04/2009 8:56:55 PM PST by wideminded
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To: wideminded

Thanks for your feedback wideminded.

The author is supposed to be an expert on the subject whereas I am a housewife. You may wish to provide the author feedback which is located in the comments section at the end of the article here:

http://www.longwarjournal.org/threat-matrix/archives/2009/11/uranium_centrifuges_and_uraniu.php


16 posted on 11/04/2009 9:04:21 PM PST by Cindy
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To: wideminded

A cyclotron is used for radiation therapy.


20 posted on 11/04/2009 10:08:22 PM PST by ErnstStavroBlofeld ("We will either find a way, or make one."Hannibal/Carthaginian Military Commander)
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