I see the point here, but Uranium is only a metal... there are some specific properties about it but at the end of the ay it's just stuff... spent Nuclear fuel, (the kind that would be enriched to make bombs is in loads of places in the world...Brookfield said:With respect, did I waste my breath earlier, I say again, where--would--they--get--them--from? as far as I can see every sizable nation is against them....blockade complete.
in fact there is a train track that runs near by my house in Bristol that has trains carrying nuclear fuel that run through it... there was an article in the paper about how a daily mail/mirror (forget which but don't read either) reporter had managed to apreach the train and plant a suspect device on it as if it were a bomb, then walk calmly away (unhindered)...
most countries guarding of nuclear waste is as laughable as that...
in your years as a policeman how many times did you stop people for taking drugs. I mean they are completly illegal and (for the most part) not produced in this country...
where will they get the materials from? most likely steal them from a nation like britain that has laughable security and borders like seives...
(of course that's all conjecture), I don't for one moment think that some korean guy will be stealing nuclear waste from trains...
but that's not to say that it won't happen.
whilst it's our governments policy not to negotiate with terrorists, that is not necessarily the policy of their government, who could fund such organisations in the sale of controlled goods for either money weapons or more conventional bombs or training... (N korea is aqfter all in the dreaded Axis of evil) -yes that was sarcasm!)
Also, they already built one bomb, neither you nor I have any ideas how much of this stuff they already have. though I'd imagine that they didn't only build a small bomb cause that's all they had...
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Personally i think the line, I'll stop researching Nuclear weapons when you stop researching nuclear weapons is a great headline catching line, but it's also laughable, the USA will never stop researching nuclear weapons, (unless something better comes along).
In some ways it's laughable, N Koreas last war was some 50 years ago...
Americas last war, -in progress, only a few years before that america was at war... only a few year before that the same etc... etc... etc...
same for Britain, I can't remember a single day in my lifetime when Britain has not been at war. be it in the Faulklands, Ireland, Serbia/Bosnia/Croatia, Iraq, Iran, Afganistan etc... not a single day of peace in the entier of my lifetime, and before that...
and America is practically the same, it'd be good (simply because I'm not too hot on american history as I've not studied it), if one of the older Americans in here could relate to the same experiance (wartime vs peacetime)...
have you ever known a day in your life when people from your country are not off fighting somewhere?
Trouble is that it's the winners of the wars that get to decide how the history books are written...
N korea and S korea had a war some 50 years ago and continue to guard borders against each other. so that makes them bad. they are not allowed to develop weapons.
the 'civillised west' has been constantly fighting for longer than most can remember, but they are also constantly spending on weapons design as well... (be that Nuclear or otherwise).
but because they have the best weapons, and invariable always get a winning result with superior technology, they get to write the books, they are the good guys and they get to keep researching and making more and more ways to kill people in the name of spreading peace!
"Brothers can't you see? This is not the way to put the end to war." -universal soldier (song not film) Donovan