Posted on 11/18/2005 7:03:09 PM PST by blam
Iran admits to UN it bought designs for nuclear bomb
(Filed: 19/11/2005)
Iran has admitted obtaining designs that could help it make a nuclear bomb, the United Nations nuclear watchdog said yesterday in a confidential report.
After more than two years of investigations, it is the closest that inspectors from the International Atomic Energy Agency have come to linking Teheran's electricity generation project with an alleged weapons programme.
The discovery will raise tensions before next week's meeting of the IAEA board of governors, which will debate whether to report Iran to the UN Security Council for possible sanctions.
The IAEA report said documents bought by Iran on the black market included designs "on the casting and machining of enriched, natural and depleted uranium into hemispherical forms". Experts said the casts are used in atomic weapons.
The IAEA said Iran had insisted it had not used the designs. But Gregory Schulte, the chief United States delegate to the IAEA, said the find "opens new concerns about weaponisation that Iran has failed to address".
The IAEA chief, Mohamed ElBaradei, said Iran should give inspectors greater access to military sites.
from Pakistan, who got them from north korea, who got them from our "friends" - the Chinese.
I saw a PBS documentary on how nuclear devices work and the processes necessary to make one go critical.
Since President Bush hasn't cut funding for PBS, it's his fault!
I think these plans are a bit more detailed then Frontline's.
from Pakistan, who got them from north korea, who got them from our "friends" - the Chinese who got their earliest ones from the USSR before the split and got major enhancements from the Russians since the late 80s thaw in relations.
now who would have thought?
They feel this is necessary in light of the Theater Missile Defense being deployed in East Asia by the US and Japan and most likley also to protect Taiwan.
krinton krime klub ping.
P.S. More fruits of X42's treason.
Is this intelligence or fact?
Of course, I might have known. You are an amazing woman.
Anti Democrat-treason Sarcasm Torpedo ARMED. FIRE!!
...who, I'll bet, got them from When He'll Leak (Wen Ho Lee), in return for campaign contributions to the Clintons.
Full Disclosure: The Clintons are the Rosenbergs of the 1990's.
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