Thursday, August 24, 2006

Gambling with nukes

One of the most technically challenging parts of making a nuclear bomb is creating the perfect implosion which trigger the nuclear chain reaction. In an operation personally approved by then-President Clinton, the CIA gave plans for doing this to Iran. The plans were supposed to contain a subtle flaw. But, some say the flaws were "so rudimentary they would have been easily fixed."

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