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U.S. Publishes Guide To Building Atom Bombs To Web

Posted by ryuzaki0 on from the mixed-messages dept.

Jeff writes "The New York Times is reporting that the feds have shut down the 'Operation Iraqi Freedom Document Portal' due to concerns from weapons experts that the 'papers give detailed information on how to build nuclear firing circuits and triggering explosives, as well as the radioactive cores of atom bombs.' One diplomat is quoted as saying, 'If you had this, it would short-circuit a lot of things.' Indexes to older (less sensitive) documents (and some html from pdfs) are still cached at Google today. Rep. Pete Hoekstra pushed for the public release of the archive to help determine 'whether Saddam Hussein destroyed Iraq's weapons of mass destruction or hid or transferred them'. Critics have said the archive was created to perpetuate misinformation about WMDs."

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  1. What's the big deal? by matthewd · · Score: 0, Troll

    Everyone knows Iraq didn't have WMDs and wasn't developing WMDs. These documents which supposedly show how to build an atomic weapon must have been planted by the evil Bush administration. They were never actually "recovered" in Iraq. Concerns that Iran might have used the information are overblown, because everyone knows that Iran is not building an atomic bomb either, their nuclear research is for peaceful power generation only. It just goes to show how stupid the Bush administration is, putting real nuclear knowhow on the web instead of putting the minimal effort into pulling a "Doc Brown" operation like the Clinton admin did with the plans for the nuclear bomb triggers they gave to the Iranians.

    Next in the NYT: When mainstream media memes collide!

    1. Re:What's the big deal? by rossz · · Score: 0, Troll

      If a convicted drug dealer who is let out on parole, he would have to let the police search his home any time they felt like it. That's a standard part of parole terms.

      As part of the cease fire agreement with Saddam (from Desert Storm 1), Saddam had agreed to allow UN weapon inspectors to search any place and at any time.

      If said drug dealer started interfering with police searches, the police would get might suspicious and assume he was hiding drugs. Saddam was simply the drug dealer on parole and he violated the terms of his parole.

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  2. Re:But I Thought They Didnt Exist? by ArcherB · · Score: 0, Troll

    The documents are fake. They have to be because we all know that Bush was lying when he said that the Iraqis were trying to develop WMD's. Just ask anyone in the media. Otherwise, we'd all be hearing reports of how Bush wasn't lying and was correct to go into Iraq because the media, especially the NYT, has no such media bias.

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  3. What Iraqi WMD program? by krell · · Score: 1, Troll

    We know by now that Saddam Hussein never ever had any WMD.

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  4. And this shows by crmartin · · Score: 0, Troll

    Iraq HAD a WMD program. According to the NY Times, they were a year from getting a workable bomb.

    I guess Bush *didn't* lie, eh?

  5. Re:Predictable. by Banner · · Score: 0, Troll

    You're funny :-) I like how you ignore everything just to keep your point of view.

    Either it is, or it isn't. Can't be both.

    Watching people like you do mental gymnastics rather than face reality is one of my favorite pastimes.