To: grey_whiskers
How big were the payloads? An atomic bomb is not light.
65 posted on
11/14/2011 4:39:49 PM PST by
GAB-1955
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To: GAB-1955
I'll have to look that up.
But I recall reading in the past couple of weeks that Iran had been meeting / consulting with N. Korea or Pakistan or some of the proliferation crowd about warheads small enough to fit in a satellite package; and also (was it the IAEA report?) that they were looking at components whose only obvious application was the non-fissionable components of a spherical compression fission device (i.e. plutonium).
NO cheers, unfortunately.
66 posted on
11/14/2011 9:32:01 PM PST by
grey_whiskers
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To: GAB-1955
According to
this site which covered development through May 2010, Iran was working on a booster to take a 330-kg payload into low Earth orbit.
And (ugh!) Huffington-Puffington quotes British Foreign Secretary William Hague speaking to the House of Commons that Iran had been testing missiles capable of carrying a nuclear warhead.
No cheers, unfortunately.
67 posted on
11/21/2011 6:33:07 PM PST by
grey_whiskers
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