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tocqueville Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sun Oct-09-05 07:31 AM
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US briefs on alleged Iranian nuclear warhead work: diplomats
Sat Oct 8,11:28 PM ET

VIENNA (AFP) - The United States has briefed key nations on intelligence that it says shows Iranian atomic weapons work, namely research on getting a missile warhead to explode at an altitude that would maximize the blast of a nuclear explosion, diplomats and analysts told AFP.

However, a non-Western diplomat said the US briefing, carried out in various capitals ahead of a meeting in September of the UN atomic watchdog, "looks plausible but there is no hard evidence," namely direct proof of a nuclear warhead project.

Iran says its nuclear program is a strictly peaceful effort to develop atomic power in order to generate electricity and rejects US charges that it is secretly developing nuclear weapons.

A diplomat close to the Vienna-based watchdog International Atomic Energy Agency (IAEA) said that setting a warhead explosion at such a height, which is about 600 metres (yards), the same altitude at which the Hiroshima atomic bomb was detonated, would make sense only for nuclear weapons.

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here we go again... doesn't that sound familiar ?
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bowens43 Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sun Oct-09-05 07:34 AM
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1. Unbelievable
and I mean that literally. Hopefully no nation of any standing will allow themselves to be duped again by the criminals who have hijacked our government.
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welshTerrier2 Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sun Oct-09-05 07:39 AM
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2. Obama - drinking the Kool-Aid ??
During the Bolton hearings, Senator Obama offered these hawkish comments on Iran:

"I would say the policy has been less about patience and more about paralysis--a dangerous situation for a nation such as Iran that is developing nuclear weapons, is a state sponsor of terrorism, and is meddling in Iraq."

We don't any more wardrum beaters ... we need peacemakers ...
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oneighty Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sun Oct-09-05 07:52 AM
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3. I wonder if
Iran's Scientists ever thought of using an aneroid barometer for that purpose. They are very common and cheap as are Sylphon Bellows.

What bullshit.

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