35 pounds, I repeat, 35 pounds, was always considered a critical mass, when I was undergoing CBR training in the service. Critical mass is the amount needed for a low grade bomb.
BUSH/CHENEY IN 20004!
You wrote:
"35 pounds, I repeat, 35 pounds, was always considered a critical mass, when I was undergoing CBR training in the service. Critical mass is the amount needed for a low grade bomb."
Agreed. What did your DBR training tell you about the
degree of enrichment needed to convert natural Uranium
to fissile (weapons grade) material?
Not even NewsMax claims that 35 pounds of weapons grade
U-235 was found in Iraq. That was a fabrication by
txradioguy.
Don't trust me! Read the NewsMax artilce for yourselves.
Then go read the IAEA reports. In 1981 or 1982 Iraq bought
1.7x tons of slightly enriched Uranium (2.6% U-235) from
Italy. That material had been stored in Iraq under the
supervision of IAEA from 1994 to 1999. In 2003 the IAEA
re-inventoried it and confirmed that it was still stored
under the IAEA seals. That is NOT weapons grade material.
That is reactor fuel material.
Don't trust me! Read the IAEA reports for yourselves.
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