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**famosetroie** · 08-19-2010, 12:33 AM

Well if that's coming from John Bolton it must be true.

"We estimate that once Iraq acquires fissile material -- whether from a foreign source or by securing the materials to build an indigenous fissile material capability -- it could fabricate a nuclear weapon within one year. It has rebuilt its civilian chemical infrastructure and renewed production of chemical warfare agents, probably including mustard, sarin, and VX. It actively maintains all key aspects of its offensive BW [biological weapons] program."

Anyway shouldn't this thread be in Religion and Politics?

Thing is that this reactor's construction has began 2-3 decades ago and then slowed down, but it was initially only for non-military, energy purposes, and only recently (matter of few years) they rushed to finish building it. Now it may or may not suggest that changes of their plans have occurred, and I do mean adding the military aspect of it.
A reactor as such might be used for plutonium fabrication, and here lies the problem.

So, have they got WMD's or not(plutonium fabrication, once they fuel the reactor), what do you say? rings a bell tbh, how ironic.

08-19-2010, 12:33 AM	#11
famosetroie Join Date Nov 2005 Posts 406 Senior Member	Well if that's coming from John Bolton it must be true. "We estimate that once Iraq acquires fissile material -- whether from a foreign source or by securing the materials to build an indigenous fissile material capability -- it could fabricate a nuclear weapon within one year. It has rebuilt its civilian chemical infrastructure and renewed production of chemical warfare agents, probably including mustard, sarin, and VX. It actively maintains all key aspects of its offensive BW [biological weapons] program." Anyway shouldn't this thread be in Religion and Politics? Thing is that this reactor's construction has began 2-3 decades ago and then slowed down, but it was initially only for non-military, energy purposes, and only recently (matter of few years) they rushed to finish building it. Now it may or may not suggest that changes of their plans have occurred, and I do mean adding the military aspect of it. A reactor as such might be used for plutonium fabrication, and here lies the problem. So, have they got WMD's or not(plutonium fabrication, once they fuel the reactor), what do you say? rings a bell tbh, how ironic.
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