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To: KLP who wrote (124048)	1/28/2001 12:53:10 PM
From: Ilaine	Respond to of 769670

With respect to weapons-grade plutonium, it's not that hard to convert plutonium from nuclear reactors into fissionable plutonium, but the technology for a plutonium bomb is extremely complex. Given the state of the rest of the Iraqi economy, I doubt that Iraq could develop that technology alone, although maybe they can afford to hire East Germans and Russians to do it for them. With respect to uranium-235, the technology for the bomb is simple, but purifying enough uranium-235 from uranium-238 to make a bomb is also very complex. But I don't doubt that someone would sell it to them for the right price.