08-14-2010, 12:50 PM
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warrior bodhisattva
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Location: East-central Canada
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Originally Posted by Willravel
If someone wants to convince the world otherwise, they can show us evidence. This whole "repeating a lie until it becomes true" thing is a very obvious ploy to fool fools.
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The sad thing is it works. Ask Colin Powell.
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Originally Posted by Cimarron29414
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Have a look at this:
Nuclear Memo in Persian Puzzles Spy Agencies - NYTime.com
In particular:
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The Institute for Science and International Security, a group in Washington that tracks nuclear proliferation, said in a report Monday that it “urges caution and further assessment” of the document, in particular to confirm its date. “The document does not mention nuclear weapons,” the report noted, “and we have seen no evidence of an Iranian decision to build them.”
The Times of London claimed that the document showed that Iran “is working on testing a key final component of a nuclear bomb.” It made public the document in its original Persian as well as an English translation, starting a groundswell of global news coverage and expert reaction.
“It’s very troubling — if real,” said Thomas B. Cochran, a senior scientist in the nuclear program of the Natural Resources Defense Council, a private group in Washington that tracks atomic arsenals.
Richard M. Barlow, an expert on nuclear proliferation and a former C.I.A. analyst, said he found the document seemingly genuine. “If it’s a forgery,” he said, “it’s very good.”
Claims and evidence of Iranian interest in neutron initiators go back two decades, to the earliest days of Iran’s suspected work on nuclear arms. In Vienna, international inspectors have filed many reports about how Iran began experiments in the late 1980s on generating neutrons with polonium-210 — a form of the metallic element that is highly radioactive.
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Has there been any followup on this?
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