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To: bentway who wrote (271843)	2/3/2006 8:43:41 PM
From: combjelly	Read Replies (2) \| Respond to of 1571811

"Certainly designs for nukes have improved greatly." Yes they have. But a bomb that can be built without testing and/or using information off the Internet or any public information source isn't going to be a whole lot different than what existed 60 years ago. Every country that has developed nuclear bombs, save the US, has had help from someone else or they have spent a lot of time and money building up the knowledge to build the weapons. People here like to pretend like there is a "Golden Book of Nuclear Weapons" that lays out everything needed to build deliverable weapons. There isn't. Nor can you go to college and get enough information to help all that much. Granted, a lot of the equations about nuclear cross sections and all can be learned in college, but they were known when the US, Germany, the USSR and to a lesser extent, Japan, started working in earnest on nuclear weapons more than 60 years ago. Other than a gun type, nuclear weapons are difficult to build and take a lot of resources and research. Even if you handed terrorists a perfectly machined sphere of plutonium, they would still be extremely unlikely to build something that didn't just fizzle.

To: bentway who wrote (271843)	2/4/2006 4:44:58 AM
From: RetiredNow	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 1571811

Thank you for the excruciating detail. Reading through it and processing how truly horrific nuclear weapons are, I don't see how anyone can be so stupid as to think we should allow Iran to acquire nuclear weapons. Even if it is a double standard, the world should do everything in its power to stop proliferation to non-nuclear countries and to rollback nuclear weapons in those countries with them. I believe so strongly about this, that I think a conventional war to stop an extremist government like Iran's from getting them is an option of last resort when diplomacy has failed.

To: bentway who wrote (271843)	2/4/2006 5:04:18 AM
From: GUSTAVE JAEGER	Respond to of 1571811

Re: [Nuclear] Bombs can also be made very "clean" radioactively. Indeed, like those that were used to bring down the WTC towers on 9/11/01: Message 22092919