The weapon design and arms control communities agree that it is not the capability to design a nuclear device that determines the pace of a country’s acquisition of a first weapon, but, rather, the availability of nuclear weapons materials that can be turned to weapons purposes. For a nation-state, the material for weapons can come from uranium enrichment plants (highly enriched uranium), or reactors and nuclear fuel reprocessing plants (plutonium), or both.
Regardless of its isotopic composition, the minimum amount of plutonium required to make a pure fission nuclear explosive, with a yield equivalent to one to 25 kilotons of chemical high explosives, is quite small, on the order of 1 to 3 kilograms (kg), with the exact amount depending on the level of design expertise and the desired nuclear explosive yield. The minimum amount of highly enriched uranium required is a few times larger—5 to 10kg.
While far from ideal for military applications, the isotopic composition of the plutonium typically produced in civil power reactors does not pose a serious obstacle to fabricating efficient and powerful weapons, as well as crude terrorist devices.
http://www.nrdc.org/nuclear/power/power.pdf
The proliferation of nuclear weapons is inextricably linked to nuclear power by a shared need for enriched uranium, and through the generation of plutonium as a by-product of spent nuclear fuel. The two industries have been linked since the very beginning and a nuclear weapons free world requires a non-nuclear energy policy. http://www.cnduk.org/index.php/information/info-sheets/briefings.html#nuclearpower
Terrorists - justifier Rashid Khalidi has a "new" book - yet he's the same old "average Arab racist"
Rashid Khalidi (on c-span 2, books) (Author: 'Sowing Crisis') wants us to believe that Islamic republic of Iran is "not" linked to the terror organizations: Hamas, Hezbollah and that these groups have "legitimate" concerns.
Desperate as he is to act as if he's on a 'research' row and making a show of someone who's really "looking at the region from a broader angle", he did talk at first quite smoothly, dancing around and mentioning "other" problems we the USA have (supposedly) created in the region, like Afghanistan, Iraq and Iran (no, he didn't mention Carter's role in indirectly overthrowing the Shah, that led to the current Islamofascistic totalitarianism), you almost thought that Rashid might really be an academic, in the real sense of the word.
But as an average Arab Muslim "academic" he can never escape his burning Arab-racism against the Jews, though polishing his way to the maximum, he had to come to his essential venomous point, all in all, his punch line is really, the same old hateful cliche theme, "It's all Israel's fault", especially towards the end, when he was asked some questions, you could see how he was "lit" as if by a switch that turns on the Arab "moderates" hatred flames - they can never seem to resist, and fall into it each and every time.To his credit, most Arab propagandists are less patient... you don't have to wait even that long to see their outbursts.It was a small room, filled by either Arabs, or the gullible, one Arab "American" journalist is even a brazen open Jihadists-Hamas-Hezbollah supporter, none has asked about his propaganda statement that Iran fears Israel's nukes - as a "reason" for why they might be pursuing nuclear weapons, no one has asked the obvious: Did (democratic) Israel ever threaten to wipe out (oppressive) Iran like the Islamic fascist genocidal Republic did? or did Israel ever attack Iran like Iran attacked Israel via Hezbullah, Hamas, Islamic Jihad?
Never mind his Pro-Jihad statement defending Hamas, Hezbollah, portraying them as "political" movements with "concerns", and no one was refuting him - pointing to the true nature of these Jihadists that openly declare their real goal - to erase Israel.If you were to turn in towards the end, all you could hear is repeated word "occupation", more than a few times... (as you know), all crimes under the sun are all washed by this excuse, used by the children of Arab immigrants, (that have invaded the land of Israel - "Palestine," since the 1800's), and is being heard by him, as by any Arab "journalist" like a spiral.
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Related:Khalidi's New Book and Old Story http://myrightword.blogspot.com/2009/03/khalidis-new-book-and-old-story.html
Solomonia Archive: Columbia Watch: Rashid Khalidi On the other hand, this is Rashid Khalidi, and he does represent Columbia ... .http://www.solomonia.com/blog/archives/009032.shtml
Rashid Khalidi's Appointment at Columbia University...http://www.danielpipes.org/1234/rashid-khalidis-appointment-at-columbia-university
Jan 20, 2009 ... Hamas's Academic Cheerleaders [incl. Hamid Dabashi, Rashid Khalidi, Fawaz Gerges, Joseph Massad, Muqtedar Khan, Mark LeVine, et al.http://www.campus-watch.org/article/id/6708
Camera-Ready Victims [incl. Rashid Khalidi]: Hamas practices human sacrifice; the world shrugs. - Campus Watch.http://www.campus-watch.org/article/id/6622
Arabism - Racism virus spreading in... VenezuelaSo... is Hugo Chavez "arab" enough now?---From a 2000-2001 Report of Antisemitism And Racism, Responses to the intifada in the media, in wall graffiti and by Arab organizations in Venezuela such as FEARAB (Arab Federation for Latin America) were directed at de-legitimizing the State of Israel, which was accused of causing the Palestinian tragedy.The radical language used against Israel was not infrequently antisemitic, for example, the comparison of Israeli soldiers with Nazis *.In January 2009, Venezuela expelled Israeli ambassador over Gaza, due to influence by Chavez's government's Justice Minister Tarek El Aissami, who is of Arab descent * and a sizable population of Arab descent, hundreds of people who marched against Israel * (at Israel's anti terror operation of cast lead * *, Descendants of Arabs thriving in S. America, Venezuela has a flourishing Arab community of about 1.5 million, business and commerce. Shop names like Flower of Palestine are a common *).In Jan. 1, 2009, Antisemitic graffiti was painted on the corner of Cristobal Colon Sinai Jewish School in Caracas *.There was worldwide condemnation pouring down on Venezuela After Synagogue Attack in Caracas, with written racist messages like: "Jews, get out," in the worst ever attack on the Venezualan Jewish community *, Death threats against rabbis and the menacing of the Jewish community has apparently led to vandalism of a synagogue in Caracas. Marauders entered the temple and profaned the Torah and Ark, strewing them on the floor and fired shots in the air *, it has been said that 'Palestinian' and Arab supporters in Venezuela were responsible * and Chavez's (described by many as a dictator * * ** * * * * *, who is a new "hero" in the Arab world *) close ties with the radical Islamic Republic of Iran's leader Ahmadinejad (that has called for genocide, to 'wipe out Israel' *** ) * *.Hugo Chavez - extreme Arabism, he also forged alliances with dictators of rogue Arab states such as Libya' s Qaddafi, Iraq's Saddam Hussein, Exhorting his countrymen to return to their "Arab roots" *, he has illegally given more than 270 Venezuelan passports to Arab extremists *, Waleed al-Tabtabai A Kuwaiti Islamist MP called for moving Arab League headquarters from Cairo to Caracas after he expelled the Israel's ambassador, Tabtabai said that Venezuelan President Hugo Chavez "has proved that he was more Arab than some Arabs"*.
The Missouri Senate is going to consider a so-called Family Recovery Bill proposed by Republican Ron Richard. This bill will enable the electric utilities to charge customers for plants that are under construction...for maybe ten years before the plant actually produces any electricity! Hopefully with a consumer issue that takes money from the pockets of voters and puts it into the pockets of utility investors, the State Legislature will vote down the mis-named Family Recovery Plan But it may well take a a strong and organized group of citizens to point out to the legislators that they are supposed to serve us and not the utilities that make large campaign donations. Please contact your senator and representative in Jefferson City and urge them to quickly vote against any effort to charge customers for construction of plants before those plants produce any electricity. There is a long history of consumer success in this area ...
Truth about Islamic Iranian Ahmadinejad's Genocide Call to wipe off Israel and the "Palestinian" support for it
Ahmadinejad Was Not MistranslatedJune 17, 2008 - 11:32 am A new study by Joshua Teitelbaum of the Jerusalem Center for Public Affairs sets out to refute the claim that Iranian President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad and other Iranian leaders are being misquoted when they call for the destruction of Israel and the Jewish people. As the executive summary states: "What emerges from a comprehensive analysis of what Ahmadinejad actually said - and how it has been interpreted in Iran - is that the Iranian president was not just calling for 'regime change' in Jerusalem, but rather the actual physical destruction of the State of Israel . When Ahmadinejad punctuates his speech with 'Death to Israel' (marg bar Esraiil ), this is no longer open to various interpretations." Download this thorough - and chilling - analysis, in PDF format - http://www.jcpa.org/text/ahmadinejad2-words.pdfhttp://www.cicweb.ca/scene/2008/06/ahmadinejad-was-not-mistranslated/ 29 Feb 2008 ...Ahmadinejad was not mistranslated, and has in fact reiterated the threat to commit genocide several times, including recently at ... http://www.spectator.co.uk/melaniephillips/530786/the-mother-of-all-mistranslations.thtml
(Nytimes research debukes Juan Cole and others who tried to claim that Ahmadinejad did "not" call on Israel to be wiped off)Just How Far Did They Go, Those Words Against Israel? - New York Times... But translators in Tehran who work for the president's office and the foreign ministry disagree with them. All official translations of Mr. Ahmadinejad's statement, including a description of it on his Web site (www.president.ir/eng/), refer to wiping Israel away. ...When combined with Iran's longstanding support for Palestinian Islamic Jihad and Hezbollah of Lebanon, two groups that have killed numerous Israelis, and Mr. Ahmadinejad's refusal to acknowledge the Holocaust, it is hard to argue that, from Israel's point of view, Mr. Ahmadinejad poses no threat. Still, it is true that he has never specifically threatened war against Israel.So did Iran's president call for Israel to be wiped off the map? It certainly seems so. Did that amount to a call for war? That remains an open question.Nazila Fathi contributed reporting from Tehran for this article.http://www.nytimes.com/2006/06/11/weekinreview/11bronner.html?ex=1307678400&en=efa2bd266224e880& amp; amp; amp; amp; amp; amp;ei=5088&partner=rssnyt&emc=rss
Was Wiping Israel Off the Map a Misquote? - Michael Rubin (National Review)Some "academics" ... misquoted ... a line which originated with Juan Cole, a University of Michigan professor, who wrote: "This idiom does not exist in Persian, and that what Ahmadinejad actually said was, 'This occupation regime over Jerusalem must vanish from the page of time.'" But here, the Islamic Republic provides its own clarification. In its official translations, it headlined Ahmadinejad's call to "wipe Israel off the map." http://corner.nationalreview.com/post/?q=YWEwNDliNzBjYjY3NzQ3ZWM5YWY4ZTc2ZDg4NTg4N2E=
Ahmadinejad: Israel's "annihilation" is a necessary part of the "historic war" between Islam & the West (Al Jazeera). http://jeffweintraub.blogspot.com/2006/09/what-ahmadinejad-means-once-again.html
Since Ahmadinejad's call to "wipe Israel off the map" last October, some academics have claimed the Iranian leader was mistranslated or misunderstood. "Ahmadinejad did not say he was going to wipe Israel off the map, because no such idiom exists in Persian," left-wing University of Michigan professor Juan Cole told the New York Times. "He did say he hoped its regime, i.e., a Jewish-Zionist state occupying Jerusalem, would collapse... Since Iran has not attacked another country aggressively for over a century, I smell the whiff of war propaganda." Jonathan Steele of the British Guardian newspaper also told the Times: "The Iranian president was quoting an ancient statement by Iran's first Islamist leader, the late Ayatollah Khomeini, that 'this regime occupying Jerusalem must vanish from the page of time,' just as the Shah's regime in Iran had vanished. He was not making a military threat. He was calling for an end to the occupation of Jerusalem at some point in the future. The 'page of time' phrase suggests he did not expect it to happen soon." Neither of the two have responded to Ahmadinejad's latest clarification and call to action, which were translated and distributed by the Iranian state-run IRNA news agency. http://www.israelnationalnews.com/News/News.aspx/106893
How Iranian propaganda try to "rewrite" Ahmadniejad's words in blaming it on Israelhttp://soccerdad.baltiblogs.com/archives/2008/01/24/irib_the_enemy_intends_to_wipe_palestine_off_the _world_map.html
IRAN - Oct 26 - Wipe Israel From Map, Says Ahmadi-Nejad.(Mahmoud Ahmadi-Nejad)http://www.accessmylibrary.com/coms2/summary_0286-11680539_ITM
(Palestinian Islamic) Al-Aqsa: We identify with Iranian remark - 6 Nov 2005 ... Iranian President 'to wipe Israel off world map'; Palestinian preacher calls on Palestinians to support al-Qaeda masterminds Bin-Laden, ...http://www.ynetnews.com/articles/0,7340,L-3164720,00.html
Aksa Brigades echo Ahmadinejad's call | Middle East | Jerusalem Post6 Nov 2005 ... Why Americans support Israel? It's the "values", stupid ... have refrained from reacting to the call to wipe Israel off the map. ...http://www.jpost.com/servlet/Satellite?cid=1131043735699&pagename=JPost%2FJPArticle%2FShowFull
Osama Hamdan, the Hamas representative in Lebanon, told Iranian television that suicide bombing attacks against Israel were justified, especially attacks in buses. He rejected the historical Jewish connection to the Land of Israel and stated that Hamas' avowed intention was to wipe Israel off the face of the map. http://www.terrorism-info.org.il/malam_multimedia/English/eng_n/html/osama_hamdan0807e.htm
("Moderate Palestinian") Fatah agrees: Wipe out IsraelIn a leaflet published by Fatah's Al Aqsa Martyrs' Brigades, the group stressed its ... who called with all honesty to wipe Israel off the map of the world. ...http://www.jnewswire.com/article/727
God, it is funny out there in the real world. I live in a pocket of irrational misunderstanding. Out there, those people have a corner on that rational thing. Let's see, in the Boston Globe this day they are writing, with wild liberal cheer, about the abolition of all nuclear weapons. Former Secretaries of State are in favor of it. The Pope loves the idea. And I am laughing, from my pocket of strange humanity. We, the USA, is going to get rid of our existing stockpile? That is just hilarious. About the only way that you can assure that nobody will nuke you, in that whole rational world beyond, is too find, build and keep nuclear weapons. We, as a country, did not attack Iran or North Korea. Why? Well, we don't know if either really have nuclear weapons. Did we want to attack them? Hell yes. Even here, in Quasi-Lake Wobegone, we know that! Instead we attacked Iraq and Afghanistan. We knew they did not have nukes. How do you find out whether a country has nukes or not? You can attack them, if you don't believe them when they say they do. If you lose your entire 6th Fleet, well, then you know for sure. Kissinger is in favor of getting rid of all the nukes. That is rich, in of itself. This guy can only travel to Switzerland and back, as far a foreign travel goes. He is wanted for international war crimes around the planet. But, you see, out there, in the real world, he is a master liar as well as a craven killer of men, women and children...all on your behalf, you know.
So, here is the real pitch. We say that we have gotten rid of all our nukes. We do the usual. We lie. Who knows what we have anyway? You think you do? Where are they? How many are there? What happens to old ones? Where are new ones built? You think you know? If you have any idea at all then you are a true believer, in what those people tell you to keep you from really knowing. As for the rest of the world, oh please. We, the USA, has had nukes in other countries for years, much less our own. Yes, even in Allied Countries. They have not known and do not know. They won't know anything and neither will you. It is for your own good, you know. And more rubbish. It is all about control. The idiots interviewed for the Globe article (the Pope, the former Secretaries of State, Etc.) speak as one. Let's make the world nuclear free, they cry. Anyone who disagrees with that is considered part of the 'forces of evil.' We are the good guys. With the nukes. And we are never, ever, ever, giving those up. Because we are not stupid. Once that genie was let out of the bottle, it was out to stay. But we still work with this belief thing. We want others to believe that we are something or have something other than what we really are or have. It is simply a negotiation tactic. We supposedly know that Osama is in Pakistan (which he is not!) but we never threaten Pakistan with anything at all. They have nukes. Instead, we give them billions to do nothing about producing him. Except, they are not stupid either. They keep trying to convince us that he is still there so that we will keep giving them even more money to find him. So, we are clever in coming up with idiotic belief scams but we are dumb as a post in dealing with these clever Pakistanis. Rats. The world out there is so damned intelligent that I can only laugh. I can't possibly understand it.
It is all pretty funny, once you take the pieces apart. Like the Palin thing. She is so dumb she probably needs help to butter her toast in the morning. But there she is, still being interviewed. Writing a book, which has to be a new standard for defining 'oxymoron.' She spoke about Obama being so accurate in his verbal presentations. His sentences are spoken in real English. She took umbrage with his presentation, which speaks volumes in of itself! But then, to add to this, she spoke in that weird 'stupid-speak' she has in common with our current President. I call it the 'celebration of stupidity.' And it makes me laugh. Her seven million should not be paid out for a book. It should be paid out to get her on television doing her own show. She has those legs, and a dedicated willingness to show them. Look at Kelly Rippa's success. As Regis rapidly loses his marbles in front of us all daily, she shows more and more leg....and everything is okay. Writing of 'losing one's marbles,' the Attorney General went back to work right after he got out of the hospital for his stroke. Oh, they said he did not have a stroke. You know, the same one's that will be more than willing to tell everyone that we have gotten rid of all our nukes. But there the guy was, the day before, having such an obvious stroke that the film can be used in any medical school as a descriptor. Hilarious. We all saw it. We all know exactly what it was. But, like the the dolls in the back windows of some old cars, we just keep nodding away. In my little pocket of isolation we would have this guy over there in Aurora Health Care trying to make sure he was okay. But not in the real world. Out he goes, to lance some more windmills before he hits the stage floor for good. The real world is smarter, much more experienced and knowledgeable, but oh so much harsher and colder.
The Emperor has no clothes. That is an accurate description for our economy. The media is telling us that this will all pass. It will all be okay. And i twill for them. They are the same people, by the way, that give us the garbage about some future that is nuclear free, with a straight face. They tell us and we nod. One and all. It is really really funny. Why are their tears in my eyes, as I laugh?
Iranian boy is treated for brain tumour at Israeli hospital Telegraph ^ 11 Oct 2008 Carolynne Wheeler
http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/worldnews/middleeast/israel/3178088/Iranian-boy-is-treated-for-brain-tumour-at-Israeli-hospital.html
Israel = Humanitarian, Israel the Gem!
On cost alone wind power is the best choice, with solar a close second, and ocean energy third. When you factor in the environmental ramifications - no greenhouse gases, no radioactive wastes, no toxic wastes, no mercury, no fuel - no fuel spills - there's no choice - clean energy is the future.
Why mine, mill and burn coal when for less money we can put up a wind farm? Why burn oil, giving money to Iran, Saudi Arabia, and Exxon?
