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2006-04-17 Syria-Lebanon-Iran

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Posted by Phens Spaimp8136 2006-04-17 02:10|| || Front Page|| [5 views since 2007-05-07] Top

#1 We need Khan in US custody somehow.

Posted by 3dc 2006-04-17 09:25|| 2006-04-17 09:25|| Front Page Top

#2 AQ Khan is not a nuclear engineer or physicist.
He is a metallurgist.

The Chinese provided the ring magnets for the P2 centrifuges.

The centrifuges themselves are originally of European design. AQ Khan stole the designs when he worked at URENCO.

The proliferation was not one way - it would seem that Pakistan provided the Chinese with the advanced URENCO designs, the Chinese may have made modifications (to allow easier fabrication) and provided technical assitance to Pakistan to actually allow them to make the centrifuge cascades.

China also provided the design blueprints and detailed manufacturing notes for CHICOM 4 - the weapon tested during the 4th Chinese nuclear test - a 500 kg, <0.8 m diameter HEU device that can be easily mated to a ballistic missile.

Pakistan then proliferated this design to North Korea, to obtain ballistic missiles from them.

Subsequent proliferation seesm to have been motivated by islamist ideology - a desire to have several muslim countries as nuclear weapon states.

AQ Khan, who was born in Bhopal, India, belongs to a generation (on both sides of the border) traumatized by the massacres of partition. A desire for revenge and for muslim domination drove him during the years he headed Pakistan's weapons program.

Perv is no different. He will not hand Khan over.
He also knows too much .. AQ Khan was not an independent operator - it was the Pakistani state that proliferated.

Posted by john 2006-04-17 09:50|| 2006-04-17 09:50|| Front Page Top

#3 No, we need him in the custody of a friendly less 'human-rights' restrained country... ;-)

Posted by DanNY 2006-04-17 09:50|| 2006-04-17 09:50|| Front Page Top

#4 AQ Khan will probably die of a "heart attack" soon.

Dead men tell no tales

Posted by john 2006-04-17 09:55|| 2006-04-17 09:55|| Front Page Top

#5 John, glad you pointed out where the technology originates. Russia and China. The rest of the sleazy bastards spread it around. Iran, though, is different. They have a very high number of scientists trained in the west, both US and Europe, very capable now of furthering designs. They will produce weapons, just as India was able to do before them. The porblem is, they may use them.

Posted by SOP35/Rat 2006-04-17 11:38|| 2006-04-17 11:38|| Front Page Top

#6 SOP is correct: I roomed with several of them during Grad school. Top flight and very intelligent.

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