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2004-02-15 China-Japan-Koreas

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Posted by Dan Darling 2004-02-15 1:01:26 AM|| || Front Page|| [4 views since 2007-05-07] Top

#1 Sorry about the length on this one, but there's a lot of info here to digest. The basic gist of it is that anybody who did business with Khan and Co during the last decade or so likely has the design specs with which to build a nuke.

Posted by Dan Darling 2004-2-15 1:03:08 AM|| [http://www.regnumcrucis.blogspot.com] 2004-2-15 1:03:08 AM|| Front Page Top

#2 I've said before that I believe that the ChiComs are in the background when it comes to the Pak-NorK proliferation. Even if they weren't involved in selling knowledge to Libya, Iran etc. they were major factors in both the nuclear and missile programs of Pakistan and North Korea (their 2 strongest allies) and probably knew a great deal about the other countries programs, while staying away from direct proliferation themselves for deniability.

Posted by Paul Moloney 2004-2-15 1:13:06 AM|| 2004-2-15 1:13:06 AM|| Front Page Top

#3 Sometimes I think T. Telenko is a little too paranoid when he posts over at Winds of Change. But he's right again! Cut-out. Pakistan is a cut-out.

Posted by Pete Stanley 2004-2-15 2:33:29 AM|| 2004-2-15 2:33:29 AM|| Front Page Top

#4 What was China's motivation? Simply to make trouble for the U.S. and Soviets?

Also, who cares how old the design is? Fat man was a primitive design, that nonetheless did its job in a workmanlike fashion

Posted by gromky 2004-2-15 8:03:23 AM|| 2004-2-15 8:03:23 AM|| Front Page Top

#5 Has everyone read The Gold of Exodus? If you haven't you should. Besides being a great book - it certainly gives some good insight.

Posted by B 2004-2-15 8:39:03 AM|| 2004-2-15 8:39:03 AM|| Front Page Top

#6 Doesn't surprise me, Soviet Russia during the cold war used to use terrorist proxies to fight the west, it doesn't surprise me that China believes in the motto "The enemy of my enemy is my friend", in this case they've always been looking at a way to take a swipe at us while they could play relatively safe.

Posted by Valentine 2004-2-15 2:59:00 PM|| 2004-2-15 2:59:00 PM|| Front Page Top

#7 The genie's been out of the bottle ever since Fat Man was dropped in 1945. Once you know something like that CAN work, it's not too hard to determine how to MAKE it work. I have no first-hand experience with nuclear weapons, but could design one that works. Manufacturing is a bit more difficult. Once you get the concept down, the rest is simply engineering. That, not the proliferation of design by one country or another, is the really scarey part.

Posted by Old Patriot 2004-2-15 7:54:05 PM|| [http://users.codenet.net/mweather/default.htm] 2004-2-15 7:54:05 PM|| Front Page Top

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