From: Robert J. Bradbury (bradbury@aeiveos.com)
Date: Sat Feb 22 2003 - 17:37:38 MST
It was interesting to note this piece in the NY Times today:
Inspectors in Iran Examine Machines to Enrich Uranium
(Note(!) Iran, not Iraq)
http://www.nytimes.com/2003/02/23/international/23IRAN.html?pagewanted=print
Ok, here we go:
"The officials say Iran's goal is to mine or purchase uranium, process the
ore and enrich it to a purity suitable for making weapons a process that
would give Iran a largely indigenous capability to make nuclear weapons."
According to the world CIA factbook (something I had to crank up Internet
Explorer [BLECH!] to get reasonable access to), the population of Iran
is 66 million, and Iraq is 24 million. Both have substantial reserves
of oil (and are therefore "relatively" wealthy with respect to many
African or Asian nations that could be considered relatively "imporverished").
So it would seem that we can anticipate nuclear capabilities
being developed by nations with populations 10M and above.
The "general" world perspective seems to be to prevent that
possibility in specific contries.
How long can that perspective be viable?
Robert
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