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2011-02-12 India-Pakistan

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Posted by tu3031 2011-02-12 13:26|| || Front Page|| [6 views ] Top

#1 plus, if a couple are sold or lost people are less likely to notice.

Posted by rjschwarz 2011-02-12 15:15|| 2011-02-12 15:15|| Front Page Top

#2 So this came from Wikileaks? Or is it too scary for them? Or do they just leak stuff to advance their causes?

Posted by Bobby 2011-02-12 15:15|| 2011-02-12 15:15|| Front Page Top

#3 How are Pakistani maintenance skills? In other words, how many haven't rusted through in key places, rendering them unusable? Apparently their centrifuges weren't all that well built, according to that New York Times story back in January that revealed almost all about the Stuxnet virus.

"But the United States and its allies ran into the same problem the Iranians have grappled with: the P-1* is a balky, badly designed machine. When the Tennessee laboratory shipped some of its P-1's to England, in hopes of working with the British on a program of general P-1 testing, they stumbled, according to nuclear experts.

" 'They failed hopelessly,' one recalled, saying that the machines proved too crude and temperamental to spin properly."

* The P-1 is the design based on the plans Dr. A. Q. Khan stole from the Dutch back in the 1970s, which he then sold on to Libya, Iran and North Korea. The particular P-1s in the NYT story are the ones Col. Khadaffi turned over to the U.S. as part of his entire nuclear development program following the American response to 9/11.

Posted by trailing wife 2011-02-12 17:03|| 2011-02-12 17:03|| Front Page Top

#4 The P-1, isn't it immuno-deficient to the stuxnet virus?

Posted by Nimble Spemble 2011-02-12 19:49|| 2011-02-12 19:49|| Front Page Top

#5 The P-1, isn't it immuno-deficient to the stuxnet virus?

Utterly amazing that it worked out that way, Nimble Spemble, just as Stuxnet appeared in the wild! ;-)

Posted by trailing wife 2011-02-12 21:54|| 2011-02-12 21:54|| Front Page Top

#6 Pakistanis are great craftsmen. For many years some our best surgical instruments are made in Pakistan.

Posted by Dale 2011-02-12 22:57|| 2011-02-12 22:57|| Front Page Top

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