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Politics : Formerly About Advanced Micro Devices
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To: steve harris who wrote (353732)10/5/2007 12:12:10 AM
From: combjelly  Read Replies (1) of 1573852
 
No spin, Harris. The reactor was shut down. The cheating has to do with enriching uranium. Which, by the way, they were never even close to weapons grade uranium. With the number of centrifuges they had and assuming they could get the cascades to work, they could only produce gram quantities. And the cheating was more along the lines of violating the spirit of the agreement since enriching uranium wasn't covered.

So, when Smirk canceled the agreement and started his Axis of Evil stuff, NK reactivated the reactor and started working on bombs based on plutonium. Again, Albright's comment was about NK enriching uranium that would have led to a bomb using U235. What they actually produced and tested, however unsuccessfully, wa a bomb based on plutonium. Which is what the Clinton era agreement was designed to head off.

However, due to the brilliance of Dubya, NK went and did the thing that the Clinton era agreement was meant to head off. They developed a plutonium based bomb. So the current agreement just returns us to square one, with the possible exception of restricting NK from enriching uranium. Which a rational administration likely would have gotten 6 years ago.

Now, I realize that reality doesn't match up with your bias. But the only spin here is yours.
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