Experts: Saddam's Uranium Enough for One Nuke

[gilliam]

Though President Bush didn’t mention it in his speech yesterday rebutting critics of his administration’s use of intelligence on Iraq’s weapons of mass destruction, experts say that Saddam Hussein had stockpiled enough partially enriched uranium to produce at least one full-fledged nuclear bomb.
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In a March 2003 op-ed piece for London’s Evening Standard, Norman Dombey, professor of theoretical physics at the University of Sussex, calculated that Saddam’s yellowcake could have yielded a staggering nuclear arsenal.

“You have a warehouse containing 500 tons of natural uranium,” Dombey wrote. "You need 25 kilograms of U235 to build one weapon. How many nuclear weapons can you build?

“The answer is 142 [nuclear bombs],” he said.

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[mary_bobo]

gilliam:

Though President Bush didn’t mention it in his speech yesterday rebutting critics of his administration’s use of intelligence on Iraq’s weapons of mass destruction, experts say that Saddam Hussein had stockpiled enough partially enriched uranium to produce at least one full-fledged nuclear bomb.
…

In a March 2003 op-ed piece for London’s Evening Standard, Norman Dombey, professor of theoretical physics at the University of Sussex, calculated that Saddam’s yellowcake could have yielded a staggering nuclear arsenal.

“You have a warehouse containing 500 tons of natural uranium,” Dombey wrote. "You need 25 kilograms of U235 to build one weapon. How many nuclear weapons can you build?

“The answer is 142 [nuclear bombs],” he said.

Read the rest

And one would be enough to do a great deal of damage and kill lots of people.

 

[Joe_Kelley]

To quote an old bumper sticker -

One Nuke can Ruin Your Whole Day.