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To: combjelly who wrote (326780)	2/21/2007 12:51:14 AM
From: Tenchusatsu	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 1576884

CJ, > Earth to Tench. Because we didn't follow through with our promise of the LWRs, NK fired up their graphite reactors, took down the cameras, and did exactly what you are saying denying them the reactors would prevent. Try again CJ, except this time try and leave out the "straw man." I never said that denying them the reactors would prevent them from "going graphite." I'm saying that the original deal that Carter made left both the Clinton and the Bush administration in a very precarious position. You seem very defensive of the original Carter accord and dismissive of Clinton defaulting on his end of the deal. Hence all of the "nuanced" prose that you come up with trying to draw an extremely fine line between LWR technology and nuclear weapons research. Tenchusatsu

To: combjelly who wrote (326780)	2/21/2007 3:48:01 PM
From: TimF	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 1576884

Considering the fact that they apparently never stopped the work on nuclear weapons I don't really think that you can blame their ability to produce fissile material on the failure to give them light water reactors. The graphite reactors remained intact and under their control, and could have been started up anytime they NK's wished, which would still have been the case if light water reactors where provided. Also they had a parallel uranium enrichment program.