Denatured Plutonium

This is a pleasant piece of rather good news. This innovation allows us to effectively take bomb grade plutonium out of the market forever. At least we hope so.

Inspection and vigilance has been largely successful but still allows for a rogue state to pursue a bomb agenda. Not very well, it must be observed and the rogue arsenals are small but still dangerous and unacceptable. This will outright remove the temptation.

It will still take time to implement but we have the time, and I believe the will to bring this beast under control once and for all. The ideological wars have subsided and strangely enough, the Islamic dream is slowly fading and will be fatally impacted by the end of the oil age and the establishment of modern economies, however long it takes. In the meantime the rest of the world has learned how to confront and contain the treat.

In time, perhaps the atomic bomb can and will become a museum exhibit without ever seeing another one set of in anger.

Scientists learn to 'declaw' plutonium

http://www.nuclearpowerdaily.com/reports/Scientists_learn_to_declaw_plutonium_999.html

by Staff Writers
Beer-Sheva, Israel (UPI) Mar 9, 2009

Engineers at the Ben-Gurion University of the Negev in Israel say they have developed a way to "declaw" nuclear fuel, ensuring only peaceful plutonium use.

The engineers said their technique "denatures" plutonium created in large nuclear reactors, making it unsuitable for use in nuclear arms. They said that by adding Americium, a form of the basic synthetic element found in commercial smoke detectors and industrial gauges, plutonium can only be used for peaceful purposes.

Professor Yigal Ronen, who led the research, said if the United States, Russia, Germany, France and Japan agreed to add the denaturing additive into all plutonium, it would affect other nations now developing nuclear power.

"When you purchase a nuclear reactor from one of the five countries, it also provides the nuclear fuel for the reactor," said Ronen. "Thus, if the five agree to insert the additive into fuel for countries now developing nuclear power -- such as Bahrain, Egypt, Kuwait, Libya, Malaysia, Namibia, Qatar, Oman, United Arab Emirates, Saudi Arabia and Yemen -- they will have to use it for peaceful purposes rather than warfare."

The research is to be reported in next month's issue of the journal Science and Global Security.

Iranian Rocketry

Iran’s enthusiasm for nuclear weapons and rockets is not the type of good news any of us want to read about. We used to dream that such weapons could be kept out of the hands of apparent sociopaths and that it would be possible to keep us all safe.

What we learn instead is that if the will and the money exist, then these systems can be built and put in place by any country. And prime minister Whack Job is doing a fairly good imitation of a sociopath.

The only good news is that their capability is not as eminent as some would have you believe. We actually have time to allow natural regime change to work its way through the Iranian government.

We still have the present capability of the Pakistanis and the pretense of the North Koreans.

The real problem is that Islam permits individuals to preach a doctrine that would have shamed Hitler. There will always be someone who will strive to act on these teachings to satisfy his blood cravings and under cover of this groupthink. You only have to look at the ease in which suicide bombers are recruited.

That means we must address the problem of effective counter measures.

We have provided the possessors of nuclear weapons respect that has reinforced their owner’s behavior. In fact it has legitimized their acquisition.

The only effective and lasting solution is and will be the outright deNazification of Islam. It took five to ten years in Germany to drain the poison. It will take just as long to do the same for any Islamic country.

The non Islamic world needs to unite in this program and challenge Islam everywhere, at home and abroad. Most of Islam will cooperate and support this because Islam will prosper once Islamic barbarism itself is extinct.

The program entails the arrest and imprisonment of all extreme interpreters of the Koran for a minimum of five years and permanent probation blocking them from any position of power. Liberal clerics are organized to supply command and control to replace any open positions in society.

Down this road all of Islam can prosper and survive. The other road is a perpetuation of Gaza unto the seventh generation and the murder of millions.

Regimes that oppose this process can be step by step embargoed. There is plenty to do and we have all the time in the world to see it through. Fortunately, most of Islam can make this happen very easily and much more easily if it is part of a global cleansing supported by an united globe.

Iran Set to Launch First Domestic Satellite by March 20

by Staff Writers
Tehran (RIA Novosti) Jan 29, 2009

http://www.spacedaily.com/reports/Iran_Set_To_Launch_First_Domestic_Satellite_By_March_20_999.html

Iran plans to put its first domestically made communication satellite into orbit by March 19-20, the head of the Iranian space agency has said.

"If we do not run into problems, the first domestic satellite will be put in orbit by the end of this [Iranian solar calendar] year," Reza Taqipour said.

He said that technical experts were working to complete the preparations, adding that the precise launch date for the Omid (Hope) satellite would be announced as it drew nearer.

In November, Iran launched a carrier space rocket, Kavoshgar 2 (Explorer 2), which returned to earth after completing its mission.

The project was part of the country's "strategic space program" and "preparation for scientific and technological developments in space," according to Iran's state TV IRIB.

Last August, Iran successfully launched a carrier rocket Safir (Messenger), capable of putting lightweight satellites into low-earth orbit.

Iran has said it plans to put a "series of satellites" into space by 2010 to aid natural disaster management programs and improve telecommunications.

The launches have aroused concerns throughout the world that Tehran is developing long-range ballistic missile technology that could be used to launch nuclear weapons.