Getting nuclear capability

[ciphergoth]

Apparently, Saddam Hussein does have the capability to obtain a nuclear warhead, if he has help from other countries. This has been announced with some fanfare by a respected think-tank.

Well, golly-gosh, so do I! I can have a nuclear warhead too, if some nuclear power sends one to me by Federal Express with gift wrapping around it!

Comments

[nickys.livejournal.com]

And there I was thinking that the biggest threat to world peace was that my local branch of Boots has the capability to make biological warfare agents....

Can't you make a nuclear warhead by dismantling lots of old smoke detectors, then?

[babysimon]

Fuck it, all you need is some U235, some C4, and an LED timer (set to explode at 1 minute 30 of course) and you can assemble it yourself.

As pretexts for wars go, this is feeble.

Oh, and s/respected/Republican/

[adjectivemarcus.livejournal.com]

Send? Dear god, why not just check behind the sofa or go through the boxes in the attic. It's all around here somewhere, I'm sure...

[lamovrevx.livejournal.com]

anyways, the plum bastards.

Just make sure...

[kingginger.livejournal.com]

... that its lead lined,

And that is shipped in two halves...

(dont want to be shipping that critical mass!!)

:-)

Humm... Maybe the Russians can help for a few $$$?

[djm4]

"You've never constructed even the simplest nuclear weapon."

I did wonder why this was news when I heard it this morning. Mind you, it strikes me that Dubya might be a bit flummoxed, even if presented with an 'Insert detonator A into fissile material B' kit.

[evil-girlie666.livejournal.com]

Erm, isn't it true that anyone educated to the standard of a half-decent Physics University degree actually theoretically has the "capability" to make a nuclear bomb, if given access to the right materials?

Doesn't that mean that as long as one educated person remains alive in Iraq, we theoretically (according to Dubya-thinking) have the "right" to bomb the living daylights out of them?

Not that we ever entirely stopped bombing Iraq anyway, apparently....

Ta-ra

E.

(pssst! it's Glasgow Shona btw - how are you?)

[jinxremoving.livejournal.com]

as far as revelations go, that statement ranks right up there with "we know bin laden is either dead, or in afghanistan, or somewhere else."

[lilithmagna.livejournal.com]

Ah, but recent quotes indicate that it's not even having the capability that counts. It's wanting the capability. This from a government who derogated from the international bioconevention thingy on the grounds that inspection would be impractical and would threaten commercial confidence. Obviously Saddam needs to get into bed with Westingate or whoever, and everything would be dandy. Wait a minute! Who was it who sold him the chemicals to make the gas to bomb his own population last time round? I know an old woman who0 swallowed a fly ....