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Related: Editorials & Other Articles, Issue Forums, Alliance Forums, Region ForumsAP Exclusive: Graph Suggests Iran Working On Bomb
VIENNA (AP) -- Iranian scientists have run computer simulations for a nuclear weapon that would produce more than triple the explosive force of the World War II bomb that destroyed Hiroshima, according to a diagram obtained by The Associated Press.
The diagram was leaked by officials from a country critical of Iran's atomic program to bolster their arguments that Iran's nuclear program must be halted before it produces a weapon. The officials provided the diagram only on condition that they and their country not be named.
The International Atomic Energy Agency - the Vienna-based U.N. nuclear watchdog - reported last year that it had obtained diagrams indicating that Iran was calculating the "nuclear explosive yield" of potential weapons. A senior diplomat who is considered neutral on the issue confirmed that the graph obtained by the AP was indeed one of those cited by the IAEA in that report. He spoke only on condition of anonymity because he was not authorized to discuss the issue.
The IAEA report mentioning the diagrams last year did not give details of what they showed. But the diagram seen by the AP shows a bell curve - with variables of time in micro-seconds, and power and energy both in kilotons - the traditional measurement of the energy output, and hence the destructive power of nuclear weapons. The curve peaks at just above 50 kilotons at around 2 microseconds, reflecting the full force of the weapon being modeled.
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AP Exclusive: Graph Suggests Iran Working On Bomb (Original Post)
Purveyor
Nov 2012
OP
Dems50State
(147 posts)1. Didn't they already try this with Iraq?
Purveyor
(29,876 posts)2. Yep...and it worked. :( eom
jeggus
(26 posts)3. Gee, a country that supplied the data and doesn’t want to be identified.
I wonder if the initials of this country are I s r a e l?
I wouldn't trust them for a minute, Israel that is
ETA: After all they do have a dog in this hunt
librechik
(30,677 posts)4. study from an anonymous country which wants to stop the program?
Wow. That's trustworthy. Not.
Don't tell me. Let me guess which country. Some country that doesn't want to stand up and accuse Iran in the open. (Any more than it already is, I reckon)
Sorry, This is crap.
Mika
(17,751 posts)5. "Some people say ... "
dipsydoodle
(42,239 posts)6. Adequately dismissed here
Cole: AP Punked on Iran by Junk Science Graph http://www.democraticunderground.com/101649314