Thursday, June 09, 2005

HUFFINGTON POST SCARE HEADLINE

Here's the Huff 'n' Puff headline:
UN: Detailed Nuke Bomb Plans Missing...
Here's the story as presented by the Guardian:
UN ALERT AS NUCLEAR PLANS GO MISSING

Electronic drawings that give comprehensive details of how to build and test equipment essential for making nuclear bombs have vanished and could be put up for sale on the international black market, according to UN investigators.

The blueprints detail how to manufacture the components for a uranium centrifuge, what materials are needed, how to assemble the machines, and how to test them. The centrifuges are the main route to producing bomb-grade uranium. Uranium concentrate is converted into uranium hexafluoride gas which can be spun through cascades of centrifuges at super-high speeds to be enriched to weapons grade.
The technical papers, which obviously aren't instructions for building a nuclear weapon, were being held by the IAEA. The story's scary enough without embellishment.

Huff 'n' Puff: Misinforming the world since May 9, 2005.

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