Sufficient Knowledge

From the New York Times, and the occasion for all kinds of mindless belligerence from the Republican fifth of our country:

"Senior staff members of the United Nations nuclear agency have concluded in a confidential analysis that Iran has acquired “sufficient information to be able to design and produce a workable” atom bomb."

A good reason to blow them to kingdom come, apparently.

Listen, guys, every physics graduate student in the world has "“sufficient information to be able to design and produce a workable atom bomb." What they don't have, and what Iran doesn't have either, is the material necessary to build a bomb.

I have sufficient information to be able to design and produce a crude fifty foot tall solid gold statue of Dick Cheney beating a chimpanzee with a baseball bat. All I need is the gold.

Has it ever occurred to these people that practically everyone has "sufficient information" to run out in the street and start stabbing everyone in sight with a bread knife? Is that an excuse to start randomly killing people, just in case that's what they're up to?

George Bush really gave these guys a taste for mindless killing, didn't he? And they are doing anything they can to get another chance to go on a murderous rampage.

Although, in fairness I must add that to a lot of Republicans, it might be a capital offense to have "sufficient information" about anything, given that not having information seems to be a prerequisite to being on their side.

Comments

mastercynic said…
I don;t think you need to be a physics graduate student to possess the information necessary to build an atomic bomb - it took me ten seconds to find several designs on the web - pretty much all of the information had been public domain for decades and while all of the math may not be on a single site - it, too, is easily obtainable. For anyone who'd like to build one, I'd probably start here:

http://nuclearweaponarchive.org/Nwfaq/Nfaq4.html

Of course, a supply of fissionable material is somewhat harder to come by...
October 4, 2009 at 8:28 PM
Green Eagle said…
Yeah, Mastercynic, I wouldn't be surprised if you had all the stuff in your garage. And probably the screwdriver and the allen wrench that came in the Ikea box with the kit.
October 5, 2009 at 12:18 AM
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