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To: Sig who wrote (83892)	3/19/2003 6:20:02 PM
From: Maurice Winn	Respond to of 281500

Sig, <Unless Iraq has they very best equipment and scientists, a "homemade" and untested nuke is more likely to be a dud with little of the potential yield, but still capable of spreading radiation even if it lands where not aimed.> I was thinking of the allegedly missing suitcase and other nukes from ex-USSR stocks, which could have been shipped to the USA in a container a year or 6 ago. Except that uranium in ready-to-squash-together-to-make-a-bang configuration must deteriorate fairly quickly, so a nuclear warhead life must be not even a decade. Maybe only a year or two for all I know. I could ask Google. It'll know. Maybe somebody here already knows. Saddam has had a lot of years knowing that conflict with the USA is brewing so he'd better be ready for when they attack. Which means getting a vicious counterpunch ready. Mqurice