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UN Alert As Nuclear Plans Go Missing
The Guardian ^
| Thursday, June 9, 2005
| Ian Traynor
Posted on 06/08/2005 6:30:12 PM PDT by rightcoast
UN ALERT AS NUCLEAR PLANS GO MISSING
Blueprints disclosing key steps to build a bomb feared up for sale
Ian Traynor in Vienna
Thursday June 9, 2005
Electronic drawings that give comprehensive details of how to build and test equipment essential for making nuclear bombs have vanished and could be put up for sale on the international black market, according to UN investigators.
The blueprints, running to hundreds of pages, show how to make centrifuges for enriching uranium. In addition, the investigators have been unable to trace key components for uranium centrifuge rigs and fear that drawings for a nuclear warhead have been secreted away and could be for sale.
Inspectors at the UN's nuclear authority, the International Atomic Energy Agency, have been investigating the worst nuclear smuggling racket ever uncovered, headed by the Pakistani scientist Abdul Qadeer Khan. The operation was discovered two years ago to be selling sensitive nuclear technology to Libya and Iran.
A senior official said several sets of blueprints for uranium centrifuges - the so-called P-1 and more advanced P-2 systems which were peddled by the Khan network - have gone missing.
(Excerpt) Read more at guardian.co.uk ...
TOPICS: Crime/Corruption; Foreign Affairs; Government; News/Current Events; War on Terror
KEYWORDS: aqkhan; iaea; loosenukes; loosnukes; missing; nuclearblackmarket; nuclearweapons; unitednations; urenco; wmd
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To: rightcoast
The UN's on it, we can all duck and cover.
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posted on
06/08/2005 6:31:14 PM PDT
by
Brett66
(Howard Dean - the gift that keeps on giving)
To: rightcoast
The UN keeps trying for relevance, but the struggles are becoming weaker.
To: KylaStarr; Cindy; StillProud2BeFree; nw_arizona_granny; Velveeta; Dolphy; appalachian_dweller; ...
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posted on
06/08/2005 6:32:12 PM PDT
by
Calpernia
(Breederville.com)
To: rightcoast
I wouldn't sweat it. Those blueprints were probably already written in Korean and translated into Farsi.
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posted on
06/08/2005 6:34:08 PM PDT
by
TADSLOS
(Right Wing Infidel since 1954)
To: Calpernia
why am I not suprised?...
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posted on
06/08/2005 6:34:24 PM PDT
by
DonP
To: rightcoast
Can't they just bring in some their little blue-helmeted guys to search for them? My mother thinks they're cute even though many of them can't speak English and can't figure out how to use flush toilets.
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posted on
06/08/2005 6:38:03 PM PDT
by
righttackle44
(The most dangerous weapon in the world is a Marine with his rifle and the American people behind him)
To: TADSLOS
If they used Babblefish for the translation it will never work.
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posted on
06/08/2005 6:41:53 PM PDT
by
eastforker
(Under Cover FReeper going dark(too much 24))
To: righttackle44
To: Lima_Two_Zero_Alpha
They use toilets?? Ya know some say, "Anywhere I hang my hat is home." Others say, "Anywhere I squat is ......"
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posted on
06/08/2005 7:01:07 PM PDT
by
Socratic
(Honor the Liberator - He toils for you.)
To: rightcoast
Whoever stole these plans must be the only guys in the world who DIDN'T already have plans for the bomb.
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posted on
06/08/2005 7:53:00 PM PDT
by
Right Wing Assault
("..this administration is planning a 'Right Wing Assault' on values and ideals.." - John Kerry)
To: rightcoast
P-1 and more advanced P-2 systems which were peddled by the Khan network - have gone missingKhan?
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posted on
06/08/2005 8:07:28 PM PDT
by
Optimist
(I think I'm beginning to see a pattern here.)
To: Optimist
KAHNNNNNNNNNNNN!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
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posted on
06/08/2005 8:32:24 PM PDT
by
GoDuke
To: rightcoast
Well now, Surprise, surprise, surprise!
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posted on
06/08/2005 8:34:26 PM PDT
by
It's me
To: rightcoast
KHAN!!!
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posted on
06/08/2005 8:49:50 PM PDT
by
Chode
(American Hedonist ©®)
To: rightcoast
KHAN!!!
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posted on
06/08/2005 8:51:50 PM PDT
by
Chode
(American Hedonist ©®)
To: rightcoast
The instructions are in English, Dutch and German, and the designs are from Urenco, the Dutch-British-German consortium which is a leader in centrifuge technology and is the source of [Dr. Abdul] Khan's knowhow from his time working there in the 1970s. Bee-u-ti-ful. Slapdash eurotrash security procedures have borne this satanic fruit.
To: rightcoast
I'm not going to trust this news unless another source besides the Guardian reports it.
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posted on
06/08/2005 9:03:30 PM PDT
by
Jean S
To: Right Wing Assault
Whoever stole these plans must be the only guys in the world who DIDN'T already have plans for the bomb.My thoughts also.
To: Lijahsbubbe
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posted on
06/08/2005 9:07:06 PM PDT
by
ConservativeMan55
(DON'T FIRE UNTIL YOU SEE THE WHITES OF THE CURTAINS THEY ARE WEARING ON THEIR HEADS !)
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