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To: i-node who wrote (386585)	5/26/2008 10:12:29 PM
From: combjelly	Respond to of 1577967

"The Manhattan Project was a huge undertaking, even for the US" Precisely. We had to do a whole lot more than the Koreans. And not only that, we followed two different paths to bomb making. And we completed everything required in a very short time frame. Yes, it took more effort. But more effort was required. With a plutonium device, once you get to the plutonium, it is all downhill from there. "NK is not capable of putting anything amounting to a tiny fraction of the effort." Which is all they needed. They already had the plutonium. "As to rods being "locked down", I don't know anything about that except that it matters who has the key." They were under constant monitoring. Clinton made it abundantly clear that moving the key anywhere close to the lock would trigger a war. And Kim seems to have understood that. When Bush voided the treaty, he could have made a similar concept clear to Kim. He chose not to. After the rods were retrieved, he did make some empty threats. They were empty threats because saying you would destroy the reactor is totally worthless as far as threats go if you want to stop reprocessing. Because reprocessing doesn't require a reactor. The need for it has passed. So Kim had every reason to believe that the US was bluffing. And, when we moved our bombers back out of Guam, he was proven right. Whether you have the key or not isn't important if there is someone, armed and dangerous, guarding the door. Of course, that depends on the guard not to suddenly decide to go out for a beer or three...