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To: Brumar89 who wrote (50752)	10/10/2002 10:25:47 AM
From: Win Smith	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 281500

A "workable" nuclear weapon without fissile material is like a "workable" car without an engine. Just ain't the same thing. And there's a huge industrial-scale effort involved in going from uranium deposits to weapons-grade enriched uranium. A "crash program" sort of assumes lack of external interference. Enriching uranium in quality and quantity sufficient for weapons isn't something that can easily be done in a basement bunker or two. Saddam is not going to last till '04 without inspectors on the ground in Iraq. The inspectors may not have gotten everything last time around, but I'm sure they didn't miss any industrial scale enrichment facilities, and it's highly improbable that a more stringent regime, which would be demanded at this point, would miss the buildup either.