New job for Saddam
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Funny how the news goes these days. We are looking and looking for evidence that Saddam Hussein is building a nuclear weapon, but can't find it. Meanwhile in the US, even the trees are radioactive near our nuclear weapons labs. Somehow, Saddam Hussein has enriched uranium from its 0.7% natural abundance of 235U to weapons-grade uranium with better than 90% 235U, and disposed of all his waste without creating any noticeable environmental radioactivity. Perhaps the US should employ Saddam Hussein to teach us how to run an environmentally friendly nuclear weapons program. Why couldn't Science, in the long run, serve As well as one's uncleared lunch-table or Mme X en Culottes de Matador? James Merrill
Maybe you should just read your own link again. The radiooactivity had nothing at all to do with uranium enrichment, but instead was the result of previous explosive tests... If you are going to post things like this and jump to rediculous conclusions, at least be accurate. :|
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What do you think about Kim Jong-il and its despotic reign in North Korea. Millions are starving there, he's making the same thing to his people than Pol-pot did in Cambodia: it can be considered as a genocide, as the starving in Ukraine in the 1930s. NK is definitely a much bigger threat than Iraq now, it actually may have A-bombs :omg:, and ICBM :wtf:!
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This is exactly why we need to get rid of Saddam Hussein now! KaЯl wrote: What do you think about Kim Jong-il and its despotic reign in North Korea. I think it's despicable. Unfortunately, the dynamics of the region, specifically China's alliance with, and defense of, North Korea prevents stronger action from being taken. And there is the real possibility that North Korea already has a nuclear bomb--we know they have the missiles. Evidence is that China is getting upset at North Korea and their intransigence as well. The US is largely deferring to the Chinese in an attempt to solve the problem with North Korea. However, I don't believe North Korea to be a more destabilizing influence in the world today than Iraq. Unlike Kim Jong-il, who is mostly just extremely incompetent in addition to be an egotist, Saddam already sees himself as a martyr, which is what makes him so dangerous.
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> the only man who has actually used weapons of mass > destruction in war How about US using WMD on Japan? History is a prostitute really :) Kagetsya dogd' nashinaetsya :)
Marat Bedretdinov wrote: > the only man who has actually used weapons of mass > destruction in war How about US using WMD on Japan? History is a prostitute really What the original author was trying to say, but didn't say correctly was that Saddam Hussein used chemical weapons fully knowing the gruesomeness effects. In WWI, Europeans originally thought chemical weapons were just another weapon until they started seeing the results on the battlefield. So gruesome was it, such weapons were banned. In WWII, the nuclear bomb was so ruinous that no nation since has ever used one in war. Saddam Hussein is dangerous because he has no inhibitions using WMD. He's used them in the past, and he won't hesitate to use them in the future.
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Brit wrote: I can only assume you are implying that Pakistan got it's nukes from the US. Wrong. As per recent news reports they got it from North Korea. Kant Sonork-100.28114 Success is only a matter of luck. Ask any failure.
Wrong. As per recent news reports they got it from North Korea. Actually, it was the other way around. North Korea got it's nukes from Pakistan. Pakistan, in return, got North Korean missle technology. ------------------------------------------ "Isn't it funny how people say they'll never grow up to be their parents, then one day they look in the mirror and they're moving aircraft carriers into the Gulf region?" - The Onion
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In an interview one of SH's generals stated they have everything to build a bomb with but they just haven't put it together yet! I don't know if the guy is still alive though. ed Every time I walk into a singles bar I can hear Mom's wise words: "Don't pick that up, you don't know where it's been!"
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Andrew Torrance wrote: Its about oil. Then, when are we invading Venezuela?
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Maybe it is true, but it is not reason to forbid Iraq to make nuclear weapons, because we do not know who will be next president of some other country which already has nuclear weapons. A president already used nuclear weapons.
The US in WWII was the first nation to ever use nuclear weapons. Since then, they've never been used. Effectively, such weapons have been banned from being used in war. Since WWII, the US has demonstrated excellent restraint through several armed conflicts, several presidential administrations and the changing of hands between Democrat and Republicans. The nuclear weapon is so devastating that its use is politically unacceptable except for a means of deterrence. Unlike the US, Saddam Hussein has not learned that WMD have unacceptably gruesome results. It is right that he be forbidden from ever acquiring nuclear weapons. He has no inhibitions about using WMD. The world would be a safer place if Saddam never gets his hands on a nuclear bomb.
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Marat Bedretdinov wrote: > the only man who has actually used weapons of mass > destruction in war How about US using WMD on Japan? History is a prostitute really What the original author was trying to say, but didn't say correctly was that Saddam Hussein used chemical weapons fully knowing the gruesomeness effects. In WWI, Europeans originally thought chemical weapons were just another weapon until they started seeing the results on the battlefield. So gruesome was it, such weapons were banned. In WWII, the nuclear bomb was so ruinous that no nation since has ever used one in war. Saddam Hussein is dangerous because he has no inhibitions using WMD. He's used them in the past, and he won't hesitate to use them in the future.
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About Venezuela, who his behind the current destabilization of Chavez ? It remembers Chile '73 :suss:
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In this case, Chavez is behind the destabilization of Chavez. That, combined with deep political corruption that has stained Venezuela for years, has created a very volatile situation. Remember that Chavez pushing through a new constitution that gave him unprecendented powers. Based on my experience living in the country, the people voted for this out of desparation largely because of the history of corruption. Given the amount of oil in Venezuela, it should be a very wealthy country, but it isn't. Having said that, I was deeply dissapointed that Bush, and even ex-president Clinton, didn't condemn the attempted coup last year. Besides, it would be far better for the Americas to have a stable regime in Venezuela, regardless of who ran it, than an unstable one. (Nevertheless, trying to guess what idiots in the CIA will do is an almost hopeless task.) (Yes, the involvement of the CIA in Chile is shameful, though their involvment in Iran was arguably worse in the long run. Good essays on both: http://www.thirdworldtraveler.com/CIA%20Hits/Chile_CIAHits.html[^] http://www.thirdworldtraveler.com/CIA%20Hits/Iran_CIAHits.html[^] Fortunately, Chile is recovering and is, by all accounts, a wonderful and open country. I hope the same for Iran.)
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U.S. - Above ground open air tests to research the unknown. Iraqi - Secret research to recreate the known. Not exactly the same set of problems. Tim Smith I'm going to patent thought. I have yet to see any prior art.
Tim Smith wrote: Above ground open air tests to research the unknown. True enough for Los Alamos, but aboveground tests don't explain why everything around Rocky Flats and Oak Ridge is polluted and radioactive. There was no testing at any of these sites; only isotope enrichment and machining of bomb cores. When they cleaned out the ventilation ducts at Rocky Flats, they found about a critical mass of plutonium just in the air filters. Jonathan Why couldn't Science, in the long run, serve As well as one's uncleared lunch-table or Mme X en Culottes de Matador? James Merrill
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Maybe you should just read your own link again. The radiooactivity had nothing at all to do with uranium enrichment, but instead was the result of previous explosive tests... If you are going to post things like this and jump to rediculous conclusions, at least be accurate. :|
OldRob wrote: The radiooactivity had nothing at all to do with uranium enrichment, but instead was the result of previous explosive tests True enough, but Rocky Flats and Oak Ridge are well-contaminated from enrichment and machining of bomb cores, and there was never any testing at either site. Why couldn't Science, in the long run, serve As well as one's uncleared lunch-table or Mme X en Culottes de Matador? James Merrill
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Marat Bedretdinov wrote: > the only man who has actually used weapons of mass > destruction in war How about US using WMD on Japan? History is a prostitute really What the original author was trying to say, but didn't say correctly was that Saddam Hussein used chemical weapons fully knowing the gruesomeness effects. In WWI, Europeans originally thought chemical weapons were just another weapon until they started seeing the results on the battlefield. So gruesome was it, such weapons were banned. In WWII, the nuclear bomb was so ruinous that no nation since has ever used one in war. Saddam Hussein is dangerous because he has no inhibitions using WMD. He's used them in the past, and he won't hesitate to use them in the future.
Emcee Lam wrote: In WWI, Europeans originally thought chemical weapons were just another weapon until they started seeing the results on the battlefield :wtf: ! It's totally the opposite. Chemical weapons were created at first by germans because they could anhiliate any life for a cost very low (please refer to the notebook of a german soldier, Otto Vokmann, who explains that explosive costs 2,40 mark/kg, when Chlorinate costs only 18 pfennigs). At this moment of WW part I, the war became frankly terrorist and criminal: the target is no more to defeat the enemy, but to exterminate it like a rat. Emcee Lam wrote: So gruesome was it, such weapons were banned They weren't used during WW part II only because of the fear of retaliations, not because of morality.
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What do you think about Kim Jong-il and its despotic reign in North Korea. Millions are starving there, he's making the same thing to his people than Pol-pot did in Cambodia: it can be considered as a genocide, as the starving in Ukraine in the 1930s. NK is definitely a much bigger threat than Iraq now, it actually may have A-bombs :omg:, and ICBM :wtf:!
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They're NEXT.
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Tim Smith wrote: Above ground open air tests to research the unknown. True enough for Los Alamos, but aboveground tests don't explain why everything around Rocky Flats and Oak Ridge is polluted and radioactive. There was no testing at any of these sites; only isotope enrichment and machining of bomb cores. When they cleaned out the ventilation ducts at Rocky Flats, they found about a critical mass of plutonium just in the air filters. Jonathan Why couldn't Science, in the long run, serve As well as one's uncleared lunch-table or Mme X en Culottes de Matador? James Merrill
Jonathan Gilligan wrote: There was no testing at any of these sites; only isotope enrichment and machining of bomb cores. Nope the cores are not made or assembled there. There is a reason for the pollution but I'll let you look that up youself. Go back to about 1944 and work forward. Richard When I reflect upon the number of disagreeable people who I know have gone to better world, I am moved to lead a different life. Mark Twain- Pudd'nhead Wilson's Calendar
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Jonathan Gilligan wrote: There was no testing at any of these sites; only isotope enrichment and machining of bomb cores. Nope the cores are not made or assembled there. There is a reason for the pollution but I'll let you look that up youself. Go back to about 1944 and work forward. Richard When I reflect upon the number of disagreeable people who I know have gone to better world, I am moved to lead a different life. Mark Twain- Pudd'nhead Wilson's Calendar
Richard Stringer wrote: Nope the cores are not made or assembled there Where did you hear that plutonium cores were not made at Rocky Flats or the isotope enrichment was not carried out at Oak Ridge? According to U.S. Department of Energy (http://tis.eh.doe.gov/portal/feature/rflow.pdf[^]),
For almost 40 years, nuclear weapons parts were produced at the Rocky Flats Plant, which is located on 11 square miles about 16 miles northwest of downtown Denver. This industrial facility used radioactive materials and more than 8,000 chemicals in its operations. From 1952 to 1989, Rocky Flats workers used plutonium to build nuclear weapons triggers, called "pits." The pits were shipped to Texas to be incorporated into weapons. Working with plutonium metal is difficult. The metal can spontaneously catch on fire when exposed to air causing near by materials to ignite. The type of plutonium examined in the studies was weapons grade (mainly plutonium-239, -240), which remains in the environment for thousands of years. The plant also used other materials such as uranium and beryllium to make weapons parts. Other chemicals such as carbon tetrachloride, a cleaning solvent, were used in large quantities in the manufacturing processes. Precautions were taken to control particulate toxic substances. For example, air was filtered in buildings before it was released to the environment, to reduce the amounts of airborne contaminants. However, minimal effort was made to keep carbon tetrachloride from being released into the atmosphere. Workplace accidents, spills, fires, emissions, leaking storage containers and day-to-day operations allowed plutonium and many chemicals to be released from the plant site. Rocky Flats stopped weapons production in 1989, and cleanup of contamination at the site began in 1992.
At Oak Ridge, uranium enrichment left large quantities of radioactive waste that was "dumped on the ground or stored in ponds are leaching through the soil to the groundwater, and moving off the reservation. Scientists also are learning that more uranium was vented into the atmosphere through the decades than previously imagined," according to a comprehensive report in The Tennessean. Apparently, large quantities of uranium hexa