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Politics : Formerly About Advanced Micro Devices
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To: Tenchusatsu who wrote (327740)3/1/2007 1:50:09 PM
From: combjelly  Read Replies (1) of 1577096
 
"So because the CIA "couldn't be sure," that means North Korea didn't really have a nuclear weapons program until that mean ole nasty Bush forced them to adopt one?"

It doesn't say that. What it does say is that NK didn't have any nuclear weapons until we broke our side of the deal. And it appears as if we broke our side of the deal over something that might not have even been happening.

What we do know is that they bought 20 some odd centrifuges. We also know that they haven't procured the components necessary to build more. Now 20 some odd centrifuges can be used to enrich uranium to the low end of the reactor scale. Assuming you are really patient. To go to weapons grade would take millenia, the half life of U235 would be a major problem. And that assumes they could get them to work properly in a cascade. Which is a non-trivial exercise. And likely explains why they haven't procured the components for more. And if they can't get 20 to work, what are the odds they will have tens or hundreds of thousands of centrifuges in a cascade any time soon?

To get a handle on the problem, check this link.
fas.org

Dear Leader was probably thrilled to have an excuse to go back to plutonium bombs. And we gave him one.
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