Global Issues: WMD - How to make an atomic bomb!

How uranium becomes a nuclear bomb (in the Newstatesman) is a short and useful article on just that. The article outlines the processes involved in making a nuclear bomb and aslo looks at quite what Iran’s capacity is in this respect. The article concludes: “Although the 20 per cent enrichment achieved by Iran’s scientists is not enough to create the material for a bomb, it is a significant step forward. That’s because the more enriched the uranium, the more efficient each processing step becomes; the Iranians have, in effect, done the hard part.” Here is the full article

This is woth cross referencing with an earlier post, which contains an interesting piece on How Iran went nuclear which recounts the story of the Islamic Republic’s nuclear programme, which began as an expression of western modernity but has now hardened into a statement of reaction, isolation and rage.

In the meantime pop down to B&Q and see which components can be souces at a knock down price.

A further post on Iran to follow