[Peace-discuss] Fitgerald mtg- Nuclear Rhetoric

Margaret E. Kosal nerdgirl at scs.uiuc.edu
Mon Feb 3 11:37:44 CST 2003


At 11:18 2/3/2003 -0600, pfmueth at mail1-0.chcgil.ameritech.net wrote:
>>  Playing off that i asked him what he was doing to insure the security 
>> of actual nuclear material around the world (furthering Nunn-Lugar Act 
>> and the G-8 initiative) rather than just worrying about Saddam Hussein's 
>> desire to have a nuclear bomb.  Without fissile material, all the 
>> aluminum tubes he want are inconsequential.
>
>To improve the discourse, I must point out that the accusation regarding 
>aluminum tubes was that they would be used in a centrifuge enriching 
>system to produce fissile material, not that they would be used directly 
>to produce bombs.

Yes, Paul.  i fully cognitate that.

Margaret




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