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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."
You mean your copies of German technology from 1945?
Hey, I've got an idea. Why don't we keep the nuclear proliferating with them low enough that power generation isn't really feasible, but just allow enough that it's possible to enrich materials to make an atomic bomb?
What could possibly go wrong?
Protip: This is literally what we are doing.