Sunday, April 02, 2006
IRAN: A Picogram of Plutonium or the World's Fastest Torpedo?
"There's just no way you can hide it." [said] Mr Donohue [who] is part of a multinational team of scientific sleuths attached to the International Atomic Energy Agency, whose latest monitoring report on Iran's nuclear programme is due next month...
A single stray picogram of plutonium, one trillionth of a gram, is all that is needed to raise suspicions that a civilian nuclear plant could be making weapons-grade material...
And...
The head of the U.N. nuclear watchdog said on Friday that it was up to Iran to ensure a diplomatic resolution of its nuclear standoff with the West, which suspects Tehran is secretly developing atomic weapons.
The U.N. Security Council unanimously approved a statement on Wednesday calling on Iran to suspend its uranium enrichment programme, which can produce fuel for atomic power plants or weapons, and asked the U.N.'s Vienna-based nuclear agency to report back on Tehran's compliance in 30 days.
The IAEA's Full Iran Page
Meanwhile:
Today Iran says it has test fired an underwater missile that they claim to be the worlds fastest, durring their `Holy Prophet war games' northwest of the Persian Gulf. Why not see what Fox News has to say about this latest development, which has a worst-case-nuke-warhead-scenario.
# posted by Eric Klein @ 4/02/2006 01:42:00 PM 
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