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| Parchin explosion: Intentional sabotage or 'work accident'? | ||
| 2014-10-09 | ||
| Not all the mysterious explosions which have occurred in Iran's nuclear sites and missile bases in the past eight years were the result of intentional sabotage by foreign intelligence agencies. "The Iranians are doing a pretty good job in sabotaging the project themselves," former Mossad chief Meir Dagan once said. "They have a sort of 'trust me' culture and carelessness there, which quite often lead to accidents."
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| Posted by:g(r)omgoru |
| #5 :) on the last comment. I'm not going to look a gift horse in the mouth as they say. |
| Posted by: JohnQC 2014-10-09 17:26 |
| #4 :) |
| Posted by: Shipman 2014-10-09 16:50 |
| #3 Who knew that the making of explosive lenses would lead to an open house event? |
| Posted by: Alaska Paul 2014-10-09 10:02 |
| #2 The process of making them is sort of a combination of painting and molding, with a lot of time spent waiting for things to cure. One wonders if a certain...impatience...wasn't at work here. Mike |
| Posted by: Mike Kozlowski 2014-10-09 07:58 |
| #1 This is the place where they make the explosive segments to actuate an atomic bomb; the segments look a lot like the segments on the face of a soccer ball, and are about 1.5" thick. The explosive is built up in layers and zones, to focus the blast wave on the fissionable material. The process of making them is sort of a combination of painting and molding, with a lot of time spent waiting for things to cure. All of this, by the way, has absolutely no application in a civilian atomic power project. It's purely used to make a bomb. |
| Posted by: ed in texas 2014-10-09 07:31 |