Blue Print For Disaster

Once again the United Nations nuclear watchdog, the International Atomic Energy Agency (IAEA) has proved itself to be about as effective as a toothless chihuahua.

It was announced today that Iran is going to hand over its blueprints for How To Make A Nuclear Bomb.

VIENNA, Austria - Iran has met a key demand of the U.N. nuclear agency, handing over long-sought blueprints showing how to mold uranium metal into the shape of warheads, diplomats said Tuesday.

They have apparently have had the plans since 1995 when they received them as part of a black market purchase of nuclear technology.

Iran maintains it was given the papers without asking for them during its black market purchases of nuclear equipment decades ago that now serve as the backbone of its program to enrich uranium — a process that can generate both power or create the fissile core of nuclear warheads. Iran's refusal to suspend enrichment has been the main trigger for both existing U.N. sanctions and the threat of new ones.

Both the IAEA and other experts have categorized the instructions outlined in the blueprints as having no value outside of a nuclear weapons program.

The IAEA has known about the drawings since they "stumbled on them" more than two years ago. During which time they have stated repeatedly that there is no evidence that Iran is building nuclear weapons. I guess having blueprints for How To Make A Nuclear Bomb doesn't count as evidence at the U.N.

I'm sure the blueprints for How To Make A Nuclear Bomb are very complicated. But even without a machine designed to copy blueprints I could probably make a few sets by hand in 20+ years.

The naive fool, i.e. Democrat, U.N. internationalist, member of the IAEA, will accept that Iran just left those prints lying around because they wanted nothing to do with them. They stuffed them in a closet somewhere and forgot about them because they have in interest in knowing How To Make A Nuclear Bomb. That is why they handed them over too. They just held on to them for a couple of years just to make sure that they didn't have any information they needed for their entirely peaceful nuclear energy program.

A true cynic like me, assumes that Iran agreed to hand over those plans because they don't need them anymore. They have copies. They've probably digitized them. They've already adapted them to fit their missiles. Handing them over costs them nothing and gives them a veneer of cooperation.

I'm not buying it.

Here's what I think is the case. Iran had these plans sitting around and didn't know what to do with them because they had no idea what they were. Then along comes IAEA chief Mohamed ElBaradei who tells them what they are - then lets them hang on to them for a couple of years while he pleads "Please can I have your plans for How To Make A Nuclear Bomb."

As for the IAEA, what a bunch of truly Useless Ninnies. They are investigating whether or not Iran is trying to build an atomic bomb. They find in Iran's possession the plans for How To Make A Nuclear Bomb. They do nothing. They leave them there. They could have at least put a match to them.

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