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AntiWar
August 29, 2005

Aluminum Tubes Déjà Vu

Dr. James Gordon Prather
Nuclear weapons physicist
Nuclear bomb tester at Lawrence Livermore
Technical director of nuclear bomb testings at Sandia
Chief scientist of the U.S. Army
U.S. Navy veteran

In a recent column entitled "Powerless Non-Experts", syndicated columnist Charley
Reese allowed as how "journalists" had no power.
http://www.lewrockwell.com/reese/reese219.html

We journalists are mere observers. Like the fans in the bleachers, we watch the game,
and some of us report it and some of us comment on it. But we don't affect it.

Charley Reese was describing honest journalists, like himself. He wasn't describing
the neo-crazy media sycophants who played such an indispensable role in getting you
soccer moms to support – at least initially – the Bush-Cheney war of aggression
against Iraq. And who may play such an indispensable role in getting you soccer-moms
to support – God forbid – the upcoming Bush-Cheney war of aggression against Iran.

Charley Reese's journalists actually watch the game. They know the score. And at the
very least, you can depend upon true journalists to tell you which team won, or if
the game was rained out.

But neo-crazy media sycophants don't even go to the game. And you can't depend upon
them to even tell you which team won. They'll call up some neo-crazy – in or out of
government – and ask which team the neo-crazies would like to be declared the winner.

For example, a couple of years ago, the Iranians allowed inspectors for the
International Atomic Energy Agency (IAEA) to take a few swipes off some gas
centrifuges they were assembling.

Under their existing safeguards agreement, the Iranians had "NOT" been obliged to
inform the IAEA about anything they planned to do, were doing, or had done that did
not involve the impending chemical or physical transformation of "source or special
nuclear materials".

In particular, until the Iranians signed an additional protocol to their existing
safeguards agreement and immediately began to adhere to it, they had been under "NO"
obligation whatsoever to inform the IAEA that they had imported or were constructing
thousands of gas centrifuges, or that they had under construction a uranium
enrichment pilot plant and a partially underground industrial-scale bunker capable of
housing tens of thousands of gas centrifuges.

But it turned out that one of the swipes showed traces of 36% HEU (highly enriched
uranium). That is, there were traces of uranium on the Iranian equipment whose U-235
isotopic concentration had been enriched more than two orders of magnitude.

Now by that time, the neo-crazy media sycophants had managed to get even honest
journalists to report that any uranium enrichment capability was bad because even
uranium enriched just enough to make reactor fuel could easily and undetectably be
further enriched to make nuclear-weapons fuel.

That's not true, of course.

Enriching uranium on an industrial scale is no slam-dunk exercise.

Most commercial nuclear power plants – like the one the Russians have almost finished
constructing at Bushehr – are fueled with low-enriched uranium (LEU), whose U-235
isotopic concentration is 3-5%.

Uranium whose U-235 isotopic concentration is greater than 20% is classified as
highly enriched uranium.

In order to be classified as "weapons grade", the U-235 isotopic concentration has to
be 90% or more.

So how did neo-crazy media sycophants universally report traces of 36% HEU being
found on centrifuge parts the Iranians claimed to have imported? That the Iranians
had been caught secretly making weapons-grade uranium.

They continued making that claim even after the IAEA concluded about a year ago that
the Iranians were probably telling the truth. That the Iranians had not yet begun
producing – in any quantity – even 3% LEU, much less 36% HEU. That the 36% HEU
probably was a contaminant, already present on the used parts they had purchased from
a third party.

The Pakistanis finally admitted that they had been the original producers of the
equipment the Iranians had bought, and although not a signatory to the Treaty on the
Nonproliferation of Nuclear Weapons (NPT), the Pakistanis voluntarily provided the
IAEA samples of the 36% HEU they had produced with that equipment.

Why would anyone produce 36% HEU?

Well, there are more than 130 operating research reactors in more than 40 countries
around the world that use HEU fuel. Some use weapons-grade HEU. Several – including
one in Bulgaria – use 36% HEU.

Nevertheless, last week, Dafna Linzer of the Washington Post (perhaps not a neo-crazy
sycophant, but someone who frequently doesn't know the score) reported:

"Traces of bomb-grade uranium found two years ago in Iran came from contaminated
Pakistani equipment and is not evidence of a clandestine nuclear weapons program, a
group of U.S. government experts and other international scientists has determined".
http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2005/08/22/AR2005082201447_pf.html

If only Dafna Linzer would report on the magnanimous offer the Iranians made last
March to the Europeans to drastically "confine" the Iranian nuclear program.

No one has.

Iran is entitled to make its own sovereign decisions as to how provide for its own
energy needs. Under "Article IV" of the nuclear Non-Proliferation Treaty (NPT),
member states are assured access to the benefits of civilian nuclear energy. "Article
IV" of NPT:
Parties [i.e. IRAN] have the "inalienable right" to develop ... nuclear energy &
to acquire nuclear technology.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nuclear_Non-Proliferation_Treaty

See: U.S. officials sang a different tune in 1970's:
http://groups.google.ca/group/soc.culture.iranian/msg/f53d3a05bc5403c1?hl=en

Gerald Ford, 38th President of the United States (1974-1977)
The documents were found on the website of the Gerald R. Ford Library and Museum in
Ann Arbor, Michigan (http://www.fordlibrarymuseum.gov).

Two documents in particular, dated April 22, 1975 and April 20, 1976, show that the
United States and the Shah of Iran
(http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mohammad_Reza_Pahlavi_of_Iran) held negotiations for
cooperation in the peaceful use of nuclear energy and the United States was willing
to help Iran by setting up uranium enrichment and fuel reprocessing facilities.
http://www.ford.utexas.edu/library/document/nsdmnssm/nsdm292a.htm
http://www.ford.utexas.edu/library/document/nsdmnssm/nsdm292b.htm
http://www.ford.utexas.edu/library/document/nsdmnssm/nsdm324a.htm
http://www.ford.utexas.edu/library/document/nsdmnssm/nsdm324b.htm
http://www.ford.utexas.edu/library/document/nsdmnssm/nssm219a.htm
http://www.ford.utexas.edu/library/document/nsdmnssm/nssm238a.htm

http://www.hangitonthewall.com/MASTER/AmericanPresidency/NewAdditions/page/image35.html
http://www.hangitonthewall.com/MASTER/AmericanPresidency/NewAdditions/page/image39.html
http://www.hangitonthewall.com/MASTER/AmericanPresidency/NewAdditions/page/image38.html
Shah & Ford in the Oval office on May 15, 1975.

http://www.hangitonthewall.com/MASTER/AmericanPresidency/NewAdditions/page/image40.html
President Gerald Ford and the Shah of Iran review the troops during a State Arrival
Ceremony on the South Lawn of the White House, on May 15, 1975.

http://www.hangitonthewall.com/MASTER/AmericanPresidency/NewAdditions/page/image6.html
President and Mrs. Ford on the South Portico of the White House with the Shah and
Shahbanu of Iran, May 15, 1975.

http://www.scoop.co.nz/stories/images/0212/823309b370d60640e0dc.jpeg
http://www.scoop.co.nz/stories/images/0212/c0039cfbd2542fcaac35.jpeg
Henry Kissinger enjoying kosher food

Dr. Prather's past radio interviews:
August 2, 2005
http://www.charlesgoyette.com/archive/media/2005-08-02-Charles-01.mp3
July 23, 2005
http://www.weekendinterviewshow.com/audio/prather5.mp3
May 7, 2005
http://www.weekendinterviewshow.com/audio/prather4.mp3
May 4, 2005
http://www.charlesgoyette.com/archive/media/2005-05-04-Charles-01.mp3
April 9, 2005
http://www.weekendinterviewshow.com/audio/prather3.mp3
February 16, 2005 (Part 1)
http://www.charlesgoyette.com/archive/media/2005-02-16-Charles-04.mp3
February 16, 2005 (Part 2)
http://www.charlesgoyette.com/archive/media/2005-02-16-Charles-05.mp3
February 5, 2005
http://www.weekendinterviewshow.com/audio/prather2.mp3
December 4, 2004
http://www.weekendinterviewshow.com/audio/prather.mp3

* Physicist James Gordon Prather has served as a policy implementing official for
national security-related technical matters in the Federal Energy Agency, the Energy
Research and Development Administration, the Department of Energy, the Office of the
Secretary of Defense and the Department of the Army. Dr. Prather also served as
legislative assistant for national security affairs to U.S. Sen. Henry Bellmon,
R-Okla. --ranking member of the Senate Budget Committee and member of the Senate
Energy Committee and Appropriations Committee. Dr. Prather had earlier worked as a
nuclear weapons physicist at Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory
(http://www.llnl.gov) in California and Sandia National Laboratory
(http://www.sandia.gov) in New Mexico. http://www.antiwar.com/prather

Past Arguments Don't Square With Current Iran Policy
http://groups.google.ca/group/soc.culture.iranian/msg/f53d3a05bc5403c1?hl=en

The fuel behind Iran's nuclear drive
http://groups.google.ca/group/soc.culture.iranian/msg/2fcf81313deb4ae0?hl=en

The U.S. and Iran: Democracy, Terrorism, and Nuclear Weapons
http://groups.google.ca/group/soc.culture.iranian/msg/0d0dcf76abbaafb1?hl=en

NO Nuclear double standards
http://groups.google.ca/group/soc.culture.iranian/msg/8e41f4a8a1a3e04c?hl=en

Backlash Builds Against Cheney's 'Guns of August'
http://groups.google.ca/group/soc.culture.iranian/msg/8286b2b389247d0a?hl=en

An offer Iran MUST refuse
http://groups.google.ca/group/soc.culture.iranian/msg/743b96400831f8a1?hl=en

Zero Tolerance
http://groups.google.ca/group/soc.culture.iranian/msg/1641ae424fde5b89?hl=en

Sino-Russian Guarantees?
http://groups.google.ca/group/soc.culture.iranian/msg/bd8f5389ab0e8956?hl=en

More neo-crazy media sycophant LIES about Iran
http://groups.google.ca/group/soc.culture.iranian/msg/d3fe84a9b64d20bc?hl=en

What The Neo-Crazies Knew
http://groups.google.ca/group/soc.culture.iranian/msg/6b45fabf57726a03?hl=en

EU vs. Iran - Who's Right?
http://groups.google.ca/group/soc.culture.iranian/msg/cbce70a3093360fb?hl=en

Iran should refer U.S. to Security Council for violating UNSCR-984
http://groups.google.ca/group/soc.culture.iranian/msg/0d54ef8e41b971bf?hl=en

Castration of NPT - U.S. instantly tore up NPT for India, so why should Iran obey a
torn up agreement!
http://groups.google.ca/group/soc.culture.iranian/msg/2c234f4a148cd298?hl=en

U.S. ripped NPT into pieces; Iran must withdraw from this annulled treaty
http://groups.google.ca/group/soc.culture.iranian/msg/fbf55e939908b2c2?hl=en

U.S. proliferation rhetoric and reality
http://groups.google.ca/group/soc.culture.iranian/msg/7d8c268ee51c07be?hl=en

Ambassador Bolton's Agenda
http://groups.google.ca/group/soc.culture.iranian/msg/1ca916601b7a7bc8?hl=en

Iran's INALIENABLE RIGHT to uranium enrichment
http://groups.google.ca/group/soc.culture.iranian/msg/245f6081b4e3d019?hl=en

A Palliative for Neo-Crazy Lies
http://groups.google.ca/group/soc.culture.iranian/msg/1b7968f98173938d?hl=en

Inalienable right without discrimination
http://groups.google.ca/group/soc.culture.iranian/msg/5012a673328fa044?hl=en

U.S. doesn't want to disarm even though it promised to do so
http://groups.google.ca/group/soc.culture.iranian/msg/c0b86cad11cb9413?hl=en

UN Referral – Not
http://groups.google.ca/group/soc.culture.iranian/msg/bddc928154c8c96a?hl=en

What Iranian obligations? What breaches? America's lies, lies, lies...
http://groups.google.ca/group/soc.culture.iranian/msg/9535c4a90df98471?hl=en

Memo to slimy senators
http://groups.google.ca/group/soc.culture.iranian/msg/7065ffd57b51a959?hl=en

U.S. promised in 2000, to get rid of it's nukes!
http://groups.google.ca/group/soc.culture.iranian/msg/1e23bafecdac9e82?hl=en

U.S. has violated Iran's NPT rights!
http://groups.google.ca/group/soc.culture.iranian/msg/02f1f48fafcac2b6?hl=en

Iran's diplomatic masterpiece
http://groups.google.ca/group/soc.culture.iranian/msg/f532352654efee1d?hl=en

Bush to sabotage NPT
http://groups.google.ca/group/soc.culture.iranian/msg/6386adef83860d3e?hl=en

West's repeated violations of "Article IV & I" against Iran
http://groups.google.ca/group/soc.culture.iranian/msg/0123ceb12dd47321?hl=en

Israel guns for Iran - Why?
http://groups.google.ca/group/soc.culture.iranian/msg/2c0274540f3957b7?hl=en

U.S. wants definition of NPT 'noncompliance' changed!!!
http://groups.google.ca/group/soc.culture.iranian/msg/2abab5a7b8bce4c5?hl=en

NTP for dummies
http://groups.google.ca/group/soc.culture.iranian/msg/f317bb918ca244da?hl=en

CNN's Wolf Blitzer & David Albright: Jews global campaign against Iran
http://groups.google.ca/group/soc.culture.iranian/msg/44fcd2a53218eb52?hl=en

The Real Threat From John Bolton
http://groups.google.ca/group/soc.culture.iranian/msg/16fb61c3cca32703?hl=en

81-mm smoking rockets
http://groups.google.ca/group/soc.culture.iranian/msg/fb2c580ba00d79a6?hl=en

U.S. plans to destroy NPT
http://groups.google.ca/group/soc.culture.iranian/msg/760abaff1d8ac7c2?hl=en

Nuts to Bush
http://groups.google.ca/group/soc.culture.iranian/msg/de936f823b4dfb11?hl=en

Iran's logic proven correct to the entire World
http://groups.google.ca/group/soc.culture.iranian/msg/a5798de678dad2a9?hl=en

Sandbagging the NSG (Nuclear Suppliers Group)
http://groups.google.ca/group/soc.culture.iranian/msg/238000abe8fe032e?hl=en

What Noncompliance?
http://groups.google.ca/group/soc.culture.iranian/msg/32f537772749ecc2?hl=en

Sandbagging the EU
http://groups.google.ca/group/soc.culture.iranian/msg/bb437d1ee00ad1e9?hl=en

Bye-Bye, NPT
http://groups.google.ca/group/soc.culture.iranian/msg/eb8e9f617d0e0867?hl=en

Jew tells Bush to lie about Iran
http://groups.google.ca/group/soc.culture.iranian/msg/c96849f55f92353e?hl=en

Targeting Non-existent Nukes?
http://groups.google.ca/group/soc.culture.iranian/msg/e25e86754767e3ef?hl=en

Blindly Backing Israel Against Iran
http://groups.google.ca/group/soc.culture.iranian/msg/ca49370dcc1f41a4?hl=en

Condi Desperate to Stop EU-China-Iran Chain Reaction
http://groups.google.ca/group/soc.culture.iranian/msg/26e6a24b43339654?hl=en

The Impossible Dream in the State of the Union Address
http://groups.google.ca/group/soc.culture.iranian/msg/74938ea7958d0764?hl=en

Targeting Iran
http://groups.google.ca/group/soc.culture.iranian/msg/dbb46af7ff3f0b66?hl=en

Bay of Pigs part 2, CIA-Israeli-MEK
http://groups.google.ca/group/soc.culture.iranian/msg/b58f2a1d8b2290ff?hl=en

Threatening Iran - despite the evidence
http://groups.google.ca/group/soc.culture.iranian/msg/ce6e09919da68cbb?hl=en

Virtual Nukes
http://groups.google.ca/group/soc.culture.iranian/msg/c245e595ad17ae57?hl=en

Iran's having the capability to enrich uranium is not even tantamount to having the
capability to produce the essentially pure uranium-235 required to make a nuke
http://groups.google.ca/group/soc.culture.iranian/msg/303c3ca53b67c0a7?hl=en

Dangerous Delusions About Iran
http://groups.google.ca/group/soc.culture.iranian/msg/42c57f2ae0cdb3b0?hl=en

Thwarting the Neo-Crazies
http://groups.google.ca/group/soc.culture.iranian/msg/66c79d721fd588d4?hl=en

Trashing the IAEA Again
http://groups.google.ca/group/soc.culture.iranian/msg/f8c610f6cc9e1fda?hl=en

U.S. keeps lying about Iran again & again
http://groups.google.ca/group/soc.culture.iranian/msg/e9f480b192bd425e?hl=en

Iran's Stealthy Nukes
http://groups.google.ca/group/soc.culture.iranian/msg/e47cc87d2b268368?hl=en

Uranium-Enrichment Myths Busted
http://groups.google.ca/group/soc.culture.iranian/msg/f7ebc6f4bed9d13a?hl=en

Iran Plays by the Rules - No Fair!
http://groups.google.ca/group/soc.culture.iranian/msg/25be300601cc8984?hl=en

Nuclear Bait and Switch
http://groups.google.ca/group/soc.culture.iranian/msg/0a0dc80ca3b8e98f?hl=en

The myth of Iranian nukes
http://groups.google.ca/group/soc.culture.iranian/msg/bf78503a661673e9?hl=en

North Korea has what Iraq didn't
http://groups.google.ca/group/soc.culture.iranian/msg/56f613221080276e?hl=en

Iran has absolute right to enrich uranium
http://groups.google.ca/group/soc.culture.iranian/msg/0a8ac2dc599976ba?hl=en

Iran is in full compliance with NPT & IAEA
http://groups.google.ca/group/soc.culture.iranian/msg/737b74e86ba897cb?hl=en