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Posted by BigBearJohn in General Discussion (01/01/06 through 01/22/2007)
Fri Nov 03rd 2006, 01:08 AM
... found this on huffingtonpost.com

BUSH ADMIN POSTED NUCLEAR BOMB BUILDING GUIDE ON INTERNET…

We have lost nearly 3,000 of our beloved soldiers because of the threat of Iraq having WEAPONS OF MASS DESTRUCTION

and NOW the Bush administration is fucking PUBLISHING "nuclear bombs for dummies" on the internet??????

I mean, why the HELL aren't we just drop shipping 'nukular' manuals into Iran, Iraq and Syria?

Holy shit. Do we realize the significance of this?!!@#$!!! If we don't jump on this with everything

we got -- then we DESERVE everything we get.


By WILLIAM J. BROAD
Last March, the federal government set up a Web site to make public a vast archive of Iraqi documents captured during the war. The Bush administration did so under pressure from Congressional Republicans who had said they hoped to “leverage the Internet” to find new evidence of the prewar dangers posed by Saddam Hussein.

But in recent weeks, the site has posted some documents that weapons experts say are a danger themselves: detailed accounts of Iraq’s secret nuclear research before the 1991 Persian Gulf war. The documents, the experts say, constitute a basic guide to building an atom bomb.

Last night, the government shut down the Web site after The New York Times asked about complaints from weapons experts and arms-control officials. A spokesman for the director of national intelligence said access to the site had been suspended “pending a review to ensure its content is appropriate for public viewing.”

Officials of the International Atomic Energy Agency, fearing that the information could help states like Iran develop nuclear arms, had privately protested last week to the American ambassador to the agency, according to European diplomats who spoke on condition of anonymity because of the issue’s sensitivity. One diplomat said the agency’s technical experts “were shocked” at the public disclosures.

The documents, roughly a dozen in number, contain charts, diagrams, equations and lengthy narratives about bomb building that nuclear experts who have viewed them say go beyond what is available elsewhere on the Internet and in other public forums. For instance, the papers give detailed information on how to build nuclear firing circuits and triggering explosives, as well as the radioactive cores of atom bombs. (emphasis added)

Source: http://www.nytimes.com/2006/11/03/world/mi...
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