Nuclear Training Software Downloaded To Iran

SixFactor sends in word of a theft of training software for a nuclear plant. An ex-employee of the Palo Verde Nuclear Generating Station, in Arizona, allegedly downloaded training software to his laptop while he was in Iran. The software was downloaded from a Maryland-based contractor to the nuclear plant. It contained information about the Palo Verde facility: control rooms, reactors, and design. It was used to simulate situations for training at the site. Why the ex-engineer downloaded the software is not known. What is troubling is this person's ability to access the software after his employment at the site ended.

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Re:Which bombing?

[Anonymous Coward]

The way I see it, nuclear bombing the US would be good for everyone concerned.

Re:Which bombing?

[mrchaotica]

Downside is a highly religiously motivated nation with nukes.

What, you mean like the US under the Bush Admninistration?

Re:Consider the time, though.

[vandan]

up until 1978, when the current bunch of crackpots took over

You moron. They liberated Iran from a US-backed puppet government. That's not exactly crack-pot stuff, unless you're a fucking dickhead, that is.

When viewed in the context of the period, the U.S. actions may have been a little shortsighted, but they're not as bald-facedly hypocritical as some people today like to make them seem.

I beg to differ. There are countless examples of the US supporting vicious dictators, only to turn around later and say, "Oops. Um. We never knew. Sorry. We'll fix things now by bombing the Christ out of the place". Take Saddam, Bin Laden, Pol Pot, Stalin, for example. The US did complete 180-degree turns on them all. The US empitamises ignorance, short-sightedness and hypocracy.

Enemy with a capital 'E,' that's E that rhymes with C and that stands for Communism

Yeah and what rhymes with 'fucking idiot'? Eh? Ponder it until you discover your true reality.

Re:Yawn.

[vandan]

Keep in mind you're an arrogant, racist arsehole. It was the Americans who bombed not one, but TWO Japanese cities in WWII. No-one else has ever used nuclear weapons in war, therefore Iran is far more trustworthy than your decadent excuse for a civilisation with nuclear technology.

Keep in mind that the US has had nuclear weapons for six decades and has been pretty responsible in their use.

Are you really fucking stupid, or just a liar?

ran doesn't have the experience and with the religion thing, they might not have a stable, rational government either. I really can't tell.

Dude you are one fucked-up individual. Join the army.

Re:Which bombing?

[vandan]

Do you mean the nuclear strikes on Isreal?

Oh, if only someone would, that would solve a lot of the problems in the middle east. But getting back to reality, Iran has neither the weapons nor the intention of launching a nuclear strike on anyone, and especially not Israel, due to the fact that they'd have the favour return rather quickly. You see, it takes a brain to figure this sort of thing out, so pay attention while I explain things for you, or you'll have to wait until you meet someone else with some intelligence.

You need to wake up to what a nuclear equipped Iran means to the world.

You need to get over yourself, you redneck prick. A nuclear 'equipped' Iran is a far less dangerous prospect than a nuclear 'equipped' US or Israel.

After all, we'll all be breathing the dust that floats over from a nasty nuclear exchange between Iran and Israel.

If this actually happened, I would blame people like YOU first, for supporting Israel and their illegal nuclear arsenal for so long, and creating the problem.

Re:Which bombing?

[Anonymous Coward]

8 Billion dollars in foreign aid is given to Israel by the US taxpayer. Every Single Year. The highest level of aid given to any country in the world.
 
Israel uses the cash to equip herself with clusterbombs to drop on Lebanese cities and to maintain her nuclear WMDs.
 
The US certainly DOES defend Israel.

Excuse me?

[Moraelin]

Excuse me? Since when is it "hate speech" to even mention what a country did wrong? It's just history, lemming.

I'm sorry if history makes you personally uncomfortable, but, tough shit, it can't just be erased. And at the very least, knowing what happened back then, provides an answer to all the "oh, woe is us, I wonder why those mean Iranians are no longer our friends" laments. Now you know exactly why.

Doubly so when that lament is laced with the outright accusation that they are all irrational and you can't even have a rational discussion with them. Because that's the underlying message of moaning for the good old days when you had the Soviets as enemies, and you could at least talk rationally to them.

No, it's not just the arabs who are irrational and not listening there. The USA and we the western world as a whole aren't listening either. We're stuffing our fingers in the ears and pretending that we don't even hear anything uncomfortable coming from that part of the world. Whenever they try to say exactly what _is_ their problem, the western media and politicians manage to twist it back to, "dunno what they want. They're probably babbling some terrorist nonsense about their false god." That's not a rational talk either, sorry.

_Neither_ side is listening. _That_ is the whole middle-east problem in a nutshell.

Or to put it otherwise: noone's proposing to make you individually responsible for it all, _but_ I've also had it up to here with the bullshit "we were just their friends and then suddenly, unexplainably they turned against us. Guess we just chose our friends wrong" revisionism. Because that's the kind of message I was answering to. No, the USA was not friends with Iran, by any sane definition of the word "friend." And they didn't ask for that kind of friendship in the first place. It's not them who tricked the USA into thinking they're friends, it's the USA who basically went there and kicked them in the nuts to protect big oil interests.

Basically, let's all just stop the whole us-vs-them bullshit, where "us" == all saintly and friendly, and "them" == some evil two-faced bastards who turned against us only for some evil religious reasons. The world isn't that simple. That's all.

look, retard

[circletimessquare]

i never watch fox. i am not the propagandzied one here, and the issue is not blaming everything on the iranians, the issue is not blaming everything on the usa. blindly pro-usa=retard. blindly anti-usa=retard. you happen to be the latter. i am not the former. get it? you compare 9/11 to a mistake. do you know what the word INTENT means? we live in a wordl of rising islamic fundamentalism. it has an agenda, it does evil things, and it is not because of anything the usa has ever done before. you think you can base your world view on something other than "what happened? ok, we must figure out a way to blame the usa for htis"