WEAPONS-​​GRADE URANIUM AT IRAN NUKE PLANT

“U.N. inspec­tors have found traces of highly enriched, weapons-​​grade ura­nium at an Iranian nuclear facil­ity,” the Associated Press is report­ing. “The find height­ened con­cerns that Tehran may be run­ning a secret nuclear weapons pro­gram.“
Sure does.
THERE’S MORE: “Now it appears that Iran’s rapid progress toward a nuclear weapons capac­ity came thanks to sub­stan­tial assis­tance from Pakistan,” says Josh Marshall, cit­ing this report. “Add that to the fact that we now know that North Korea’s progress along the uranium-​​enrichment track (as opposed to plu­to­nium) was sim­i­larly the prod­uct of key assis­tance from Pakistan. If we’re look­ing for the unsta­ble Islamist-​​leaning state which has nuclear weapons and is the chief pro­lif­er­a­tor of nuclear tech­nol­ogy to other unsta­ble rogue regimes, we’ve found it: Pakistan.”

August 26th, 2003 | Nukes | Comments Off Both comments and pings are currently closed.