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Originally Posted by loquitur
it means Saddam wanted nukes but his program was less far along than people thought, at least less far along toward making a nuclear bomb. I may be wrong about this - if other people know they can enlighten me - but I can't think of any innocent reason for keeping yellowcake around. There might be, I just don't know.
Once again, the facts turn out to be more complicated than either side of the political divide is acknowledging. Subject to further information, I find this fact neither conclusive nor dismissible.
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Yellowcake is the first product made from uranium ore after it's mined. It's stable and easy to transport. It can then be enriched for use in nuclear power plants or enriched further for nuclear weapons. In other words, it has other uses than weapons.
OTOH, I'm sure Saddam would've loved to have a nuclear warhead or three. Can't really blame him. If you're a country we don't like, and you have nukes, we negotiate with you. If you don't, we invade. Pretty simple math, even for a dictator.