I am not into conspiracy theories but do find it logically hard to believe that Saddam didn’t have his nose somewhere in this nuclear black market too. Certainly he didn’t want to be left out and he certainly he would have been a prime customer for someone selling such material.
Nasty stuff, if some “group” gets their hands on a nuke and lets say they set one off in Las Vegas. Who do we go after? Especially if no one particular group claims responsibility.
Thank god Islam is a religion of peace or I’d be worried. :D
the plans for nuclear weapons has been widely available for decades now.......crip, we had a boy scout design and almost build a nuclear reactor for an eagle scout project....the problem has always been the manufacturing technology and equipment, that is why iran is such a concern right now..this is old, recycled crap news, designed to promote hysteria among the people and cloud them from the real issue, that a confirmed socialist is running for president
At some point, maybe after a dozen threads this ceases to be news. There is nothing to this.
Wouldn’t it be a hoot if the design was a CIA plant, one that self destructs at the moment of completion??
The only problem is, the plans that Khan had acquired were altered, and therefore useless. The plans were known to be a Chinese design, but were probably worthless when Khan got them.
Not knowing any better, the North Koreans followed the design to a tee, and their nuke probably did not even reach critical mass, and ruined all the work (and the Plutonium produced) up to that point. Without a clue as to what went wrong, the NKs were back at square one, with no road map forward. It explains why the NKs were open to giving up their quest for the bomb.
I imagine that there were some high fives in Intelligence circles when the NK nuke failed.
I would not worry about it too much, unless someone “In the know” were to point out the problems.
Unlikely, that.
Why hasn't the CIA put this guy down for a permanent dirt nap?