UN Alert As Nuclear Plans Go Missing (Blueprints feared up for sale)

[Maddy McCall]

Electronic drawings that give comprehensive details of how to build and test equipment essential for making nuclear bombs have vanished and could be put up for sale on the international black market, according to UN investigators.

The blueprints, running to hundreds of pages, show how to make centrifuges for enriching uranium. In addition, the investigators have been unable to trace key components for uranium centrifuge rigs and fear that drawings for a nuclear warhead have been secreted away and could be for sale.

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A senior official said several sets of blueprints for uranium centrifuges - the so-called P-1 and more advanced P-2 systems which were peddled by the Khan network - have gone missing.

"We know there were several sets of them prepared," said the official. "So who got those electronic drawings? We have only actually got to the one full set from Libya. So who got the rest, the copies?

"We have no evidence they were destroyed. One possibility is another client. We just don't know where they are."

More at: http://www.guardian.co.uk/international/story/0,3604,1502378,00.html#article_continue

[nadinbrzezinski]

1. is this an itime yuo think I can find on EBay?

I am not kidding here, that said... how exactly are we safer?

:sarcasm:

[Jose Diablo]

13. I checked out you question

Sceptical they would be there, but E-Bay says they do have them. Here run this:

http://www.google.com/search?hl=en&lr=&safe=off&q=Electronic+Blueprints+for+Nuclear+Plans&btnG=Search

On the right side on page 1 there they are.

"New & used Blueprint Plans. aff
Check out the deals now!"
www.ebay.com

:D

[chicagojoe]

2. Could this be a

scam to dis-credit the UN ? That seems to be popular lately.

[fooj]

3. Crossed my mind, too.

:shrug:

[Judi Lynn]

4. Yup, definitely seems likely, considering the UN has bitter enemies

of its peace-keeping mission among the furriner-hating Republicans.

Look what pops up in google images under "UN enemy..."



at a hard right-wingnut site: http://www.stentorian.com/politics/un/

"The Stentorian
For the Preservation of Liberty and Individual Freedom"

I believe we've had trolls here representing this Republican denomination! This site is too unintentionally comical to describe.



How stupid is THIS? What kind of idiot is going to try
to scare himself with a fantasy of the United Nations
trying to get him? Someone with way too much time on
his hands.

[Igel]

10. Unlikely. It doesn't seem that the UN ever possessed them,

they just haven't figured what happened to copies they have evidence were created.

[James T. Kirk]

5. Khaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaan!!!!!!!

[KittyWampus]

9. HaHaHa! Actually, Isn't The "Khan Network" Related To Iranian Spy

and Bush toady Chalabi?

[James T. Kirk]

15. The A.Q. Khan Network is mostly just reality shows anymore.

I hardly ever watch it.

But seriously, I don't think Bush and Khan are on the same side.

[Ganja Ninja]

6. I don't know how or why but I'm guessing John Bolton ...

figures into this in some way, shape or form.

[leesa]

7. I'm sorry, but don't most physicists/engineers know how to do this??

Getting the materials is the harder part, but the BFEE will be happy to sell it to whomever wants it in exchange for the privilege of declaring them an enemy and bombing the shit out of them ten years later.

[Mr.Green93]

8. This could be a good thing

if it helps to thwart U.S. hegemony and leads to the end of U.S. so called Superpower status.

[Igel]

11. "The enemy of my enemy is not my friend."

I've had some who seemed to forget their mythical status, even when the saying would seem to provide an iron-clad guarantee, and who tried to do me serious wrong.

And, even if the enemy of my enemy is my friend, it doesn't mean that s/he's not going to do serious hurt to others that aren't my enemies.

[DeepModem Mom]

12. And didn't the Bush adm. give Khan a pass? nt

[daleo]

14. Maybe they will be on a website eventually

With today's technology it is pretty difficult to keep anything secret once it has left the building.