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| Insane Idea To Give Nuclear Weapons To Tyrants So They Won't Make Their Own |
| 2010-12-04 |
| After years of debate and a fundraising campaign launched by investor Warren Buffett, the U.N. atomic agency decided Friday to set up a $150 million uranium-fuel "bank". The idea of such a bank has been floated for decades, but the concept took on new urgency with the development of Iran's nuclear program. The bank would guarantee the sale of fuel grade enriched uranium for countries' nuclear-power plants, eliminating their need to develop it themselves. So they can move directly to high grade enrichment and weaponization at much less cost. Also generates large profits and employment for France, since the reactors would (of course) have to be located there ... The same centrifuges used to prepare uranium for power plants can also be used to enrich it to higher, weapons-grade levels. President Barack Obama has touted the fuel bank, which will get $50 million from the U.S. government. Because we've got plenty of money to give away, especially to the cause of giving dictators an easier path to nuclear weapons. We're only borrowing 43% of what we spend, what's the big deal ... "This is a breakthrough in global cooperation just like the UN Human Rights Commission to enable peaceful uses of nuclear energy while reducing the risks of proliferation and catastrophic terrorism," said former Sen. Sam Nunn, co-chairman of the Nuclear Threat Initiative, a private group that played a key role in getting the bank off the ground. Although more guarded, academic experts "You know, 'experts' " said the bank is a positive step at a time of rising fears of nuclear proliferation. "The bank is not a guarantee against the risk some countries might choose to proliferate," said Lawrence Scheinman of the James Martin Center for Nonproliferation Studies. "But the fewer the countries that have capacity to enrich uranium in the first place, the lower the prospect is they will be able to weaponize." Oh, except for the part about it being much easier and cheaper for them to weaponize if you give them already enriched raw materials. Gee, only if they hide the facilities to do that. Who would do such a dastardly thing? Nations on the Board of Governors of the International Atomic Energy Agency voted 28-0 to approve the bank, with six abstentions and one country absent. Because the IAEA's track record with Pakistan and Iran was so incredibly successful. The fuel bank, in essence, will ensure the sale of uranium for power plants to countries that are in good standing with the U.N. energy watchdog. The new institution is meant to be a backup in case countries face a cutoff from commercial suppliers. Except that commercial suppliers have always delivered, except when ordered not to, making this a completely vapid excuse. Vapid is a UN specialty ... A senior U.S. official said the bank is not likely to prompt Iran to alter its nuclear program, which is widely suspected of being aimed at developing weapons, a charge Tehran denies. Nor would it do so for any country, under any, ANY other circumstance. "But it does undercut their argument that they need to have an indigenous uranium-enrichment program because they can't be confident they can rely on" outside suppliers of fuel, the official said, speaking on condition of anonymity. Because it is so much more important to undercut a lie than to keep enriched uranium out of the hands of genocidal psychopaths. The fuel-bank project got going in 2006 after Nunn approached Buffett with the idea. Buffett pledged $50 million on the condition that governments kick in an additional $100 million. That total was reached last year. And Warren Buffett hopes to make billions with his uranium investments. |
| Posted by: Anonymoose |
| #3 An armed society might be a safe society, but an armed non-society is another somalia. |
| Posted by: Bright Pebbles 2010-12-04 16:49 |
| #2 The fuel bank, in essence, will ensure the sale of uranium for power plants to countries that are in good standing with the U.N. energy watchdog. Who's to decide? If someone like El Baradei run it, it's will make no sense to give it away to any country. |
| Posted by: Uleatch Dribble8106 2010-12-04 11:58 |
| #1 It's the 2nd amendment writ large, if everyone carries, you gets a safe society. Yeah, well, not exactly.... but hell who knows. |
| Posted by: Zombie Hillary Lover 2010-12-04 10:47 |