Iran inches closer to acquiring nuclear weapons.
Slate.com / Christopher Hitchens
06-Jan-2010 (7 comments)

Leaving to one side the alarming possibility that any of Obama's people ever did believe the preposterous arguments of that National Intelligence Estimate (denounced by your humble servant in this space on Dec. 10, 2007), one must wonder what sort of scale is implied by "smaller." That ostensibly reassuring usage might, in fact, be accurate. The new documents alluded to in the article were published in the Times of London in the second and third weeks of December and have been extensively reviewed by numerous authorities, none of whom have chosen to challenge their authenticity. And the documents do, in point of fact, throw light upon something "smaller scale." To be precise, they show the internal memoranda of the dictatorship as they bear on the crucial question of a "neutron initiator." Small as this device may be, it is the technical expression used for the "trigger" mechanism of a workable nuclear weapon. The critical element of the "trigger" is uranium deuteride or UD3. And uranium deuteride has no other purpose. To quote David Albright, the president of the Institute for Science and Internatio... >>>

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by Abarmard on Wed Jan 06, 2010 06:14 PM PST

Fair enough


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Anonymous Observer

Abarmard

by Anonymous Observer on Wed Jan 06, 2010 06:06 PM PST

This is an opinion piece.  If you have sources that contradict the points made by the author, then please feel free to post them.  Posting this piece does not mean agreement with its contents or "misinforming" oneself.


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Abarmard

Wait a minute

by Abarmard on Wed Jan 06, 2010 06:01 PM PST

I just read in another site that the US intelligence has agreed that all the earlier allegation about "documents" regarding Iranian Nuclear activities are fake. Why follow propaganda? What would be the purpose of misinforming one self?


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Anonymous Observer

VPK

by Anonymous Observer on Wed Jan 06, 2010 12:43 PM PST

I agree.  Both sides feed off of each other.  


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Veiled Prophet of Khorasan

Red Herring

by Veiled Prophet of Khorasan on Wed Jan 06, 2010 12:43 PM PST

 

The "Nuclear" issue is a big fat red herring. In other words a smoke screen by both IRI and NeoCons to divert attention. The Mullahs want to stay in power so they need to refocus attention to something other than their miserable record on: economy; human rights; freedom and pretty much anything else. The NeoCons hate Iran and would rather have an enemy than a partner to work with. Therefore they keep stirring the pot with cries of sky is falling. Hoping to isolate Iran. They both want war for different reasons. It is truly a marriage made in hell between Mullahs and their NeoCon ideological brethren.  

The real issue is freedom for Iranians. Not what happens to the Mullahs; Israel; or US interests. Don't worry about them they will sort themselves out. How about worrying about a  democratic Iran. And of course who get s the oil money.

A democratic Iran is not likely to either want nuclear weapons or use them. Unfortunately there are vested interested in the West and Iran who want this issue. It is BS; they know it and we know it.

 


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Anonymous Observer

Bavafa

by Anonymous Observer on Wed Jan 06, 2010 12:20 PM PST

Are we supporting the creation of a nuclear armed mini-imperialist state?  I thought you were all for peace and disarmament?  Or does that aspiration only apply to the amorphous "west"?


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Bavafa

good for Iranians, dameshoon garm va ta cheshme hassod koor

by Bavafa on Wed Jan 06, 2010 12:07 PM PST

Mehrdad


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