For a former high-level official in Israel's security services, the news this week was not upsetting - that Iran on its own had produced new, advanced nuclear centrifuges.According to a report of the ineffective International Atomic Energy Agency, Iran has begun to install the centrifuges in its uranium enrichment facility in Natanz. But the high-level source noted that development and production of the new centrifuges began more than seven years ago. That does not speak of a great technological capability on Iran's part.
| Ouch. Isn't Russia doing a turn-key installation for them? |
Soddy Arabia wants to equip itself with nuclear reactors to generate electricity. The United States is interested in selling Riyad reactors for two reasons - fat contracts worth billions of dollars for the American nuclear energy industry and there's the somewhat covert aspect: Supplying the reactors allows Washington to keep close tabs on nuclear developments in Soddy Arabia. The American administration is concerned that with a nuclear program for civilian uses, Soddy Arabia would actually like to prepare the infrastructure so it could switch to producing nuclear weapons relatively quickly, should Iran possess such weapons.
| Using hired technicians, one assumes. The Saudi education system isn't geared toward producing scientists and technicians...and I have a hard time imagining any Saudi taking a job that might scramble his DNA even more than the scrambles he was born with. All sorts of interesting possibilities appear on the horizon under such conditions -- lots of well-educated Palestinians speak Hebrew, y'know. |
Soddy Arabia reportedly funded Pakistain's nuclear weapons program
| We heard that, too. How odd. |
Bandar is considered to be among those encouraging the nuclear connection with Pakistain to put his country on a secret path to nuclear weapons. To this end he visited Kazakhstan a few weeks ago and met with the directors of the state-owned company that produces uranium, Kazatomprom.
| Shh...it's a secret. |