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Analysis: Iran's Nuclear Program Has Been an Astronomical Waste

Posted by Soulskill on from the price-of-nonprogress dept.

Lasrick writes: Business Insider's Armin Rosen uses a fuel-cost calculator from the Bulletin of the Atomic Scientists to show that Iran's nuclear program has been "astronomically costly" for the country. Rosen uses calculations from this tool to hypothesize that what Iran "interprets as the country's 'rights' under the 1970 Non-Proliferation Treaty is a diplomatic victory that justifies the outrageous expense of the nuclear program." Great data crunching.

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  1. Cost of making the USA piss their pants: Priceless by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 3, Interesting

    And they would do it again.

  2. Muon detector by backslashdot · · Score: 1, Interesting

    Whenever a fission reactor operates, it produces neutrinos. In fact, high grade fissile material can produce it too. Neutrinos are also impractical to shield against. It has been known and proposed for some time that if we built a network of neutrino detectors for about $10 billion we would be able to monitor and prevent anyone including ourselves from building nukes, anywhere. Yeah ourselves too, so gee I wonder why nobody is funding it.

    If you dont believe me just google these three words: neutrinos fission reactor

  3. Re:Nope! by oobayly · · Score: 5, Interesting

    I was talking to a colleague following the terrorist attacks last week in France, Tunisia and Kuwait. His wife was talking about going on holiday somewhere and he said "fine, as long as it's not a Muslim country". We then progressed on to how it was sad that the region that was the cradle of civilisation is now well behind the curve.

    I also added that Iran is probably one of the safer Muslim countries to visit nowadays, which is ironic to say the least. He's still not convinced about going to Tehran for his summer holidays though!

  4. Re:They are looking forward by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 2, Interesting

    Nope, they're starting with the Bahais.

    Bahá'ís as well as the United Nations, Amnesty International, the European Union, the United States and peer-reviewed academic literature have stated that the members of the Bahá'í community in Iran have been subjected to unwarranted arrests, false imprisonment, beatings, torture, unjustified executions, confiscation and destruction of property owned by individuals and the Bahá'í community, denial of employment, denial of government benefits, denial of civil rights and liberties, and denial of access to higher education.

    source

  5. Re:Cost of making the USA piss their pants: Pricel by KiloByte · · Score: 3, Interesting

    You're assuming they're thinking rationally. They're not. It's not a well-calculated strategy, it's all about Islam.

    --
    The creatures outside looked from Alt-Right to Antifa; but already it was impossible to say which was which.
  6. Re:Cost of making the USA piss their pants: Pricel by painandgreed · · Score: 4, Interesting

    "it's all about Islam."

    DING DING DING!!! We have a winner. You wins the internet. I wish the rest of the world would fucking get it. You can't rationalize radical religious convictions.

    Well, until you realize that those religious lines are conveniently following ethnic lines that have existed much longer than islam. The main driver in the middle east is sunni-shia politics which equates to arab-persian politics. The west is just an issue to be dealt with after the shia issue has been dealt with ti the IS.