Top-Secret US Replica of Iran Nuclear Sites Key To Weapons Deal

Lasrick writes Paul Richter at the LA Times has a very cool article describing replicas of Iran's nuclear facilities that the U.S. operates in order to study what Iran's technical capabilities are. "Using centrifuges acquired when Libya abandoned its nuclear program in 2003, as well as American-built equipment, the government has spent millions of dollars over more than a decade to build replicas of the enrichment facilities that are the pride of Iran's nuclear program. Since negotiations with Iran began in earnest, U.S. nuclear technicians have spent long hours tinkering with the machines to test different restrictions and see how much they would limit Iran's ability to convert uranium into bomb fuel."

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Re:I don't get it.

[garyisabusyguy]

It is called the Non Proliferation Treaty, and the idea is to not allow additional countries to develop nuclear weapons beyond the countries that had developed them before the treaty was finalized in 1996
http://www.un.org/disarmament/...

The central idea being that the existing countries had made it through the cold war without nuking each other and had developed control system mature enough to avoid an accident, while many of the banned countries did not have nukes yet and demonstrated aggressive behavior to wards their neighbors