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To: LindyBill who wrote (230493)	12/5/2007 4:38:33 PM
From: Sea Otter	Respond to of 794206

What - exactly - constitutes a nuclear "military" program? Anyone know? My understanding is that the hard part about producing a nuclear weapon is getting the enriched uranium or the plutonium. That takes huge inputs of money, science and industrial engineering. A real daunting project. But, once you have the goods, making a simple low-yield weapon is something you can accomplish with a few engineers and a good machine shop. Basically you rig a setup that simply fires two sub-critical components together. The result goes "boom". It won't be optimal or technically pretty, but it will work. Iran is publicly creating the capability for enrichment. But (according to our infallible spymasters, the ones that clued us in on that grave nuclear danger in Iraq) they're not pursuing a "military" program. Presumably that Iran is not busy optimizing nuclear bomb designs? Figuring out how to put mount them onto rockets? Is that it? If so, the distinctions between "civilian" and "military" seem rather meaningless to me. That's a problem.