Posted on 12/15/2010 3:38:52 PM PST by MissesBush
SIGINT? Isn’t that also the name of the unstoppable “kill” signal in Unix?
As a practical matter, NO. They had ENIAC at about that time, and used it to develope and break codes. The first REAL mainframes didn’t appear till the 1960’s.
The problem is, any newly-built centrifuges will have computer controls incorporated into them (like just about anything else nowadays). To make centrifuges like those used during the Manhattan Project, the Iranians would have to build them from scratch, and I doubt they have the capability to do that.
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