"peaceful" nuclear weapons
Aug. 8th, 2007 10:22 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
miriam_eNext time some nuclear apologist tries to tell you that nuclear energy and nuclear bombs are different, and that nuclear fuel users sign strict agreements to use the fuels peacefully, point this out to them:
http://www.nci.org/a/a61598.htm
It is a jpg image which is a bit hard to read, but the essentials are:
"You wouldn't know it from news reports, but most of the military plutonium stocks come from a research project provided years ago by the United States and Canada. India had promised both countries that it would not use this plutonium for bombs."
[...]
"The plutonium in question is the approximately 600 pounds -- enough for about 50 bombs -- produced in India's CIRUS research reactor since it began operating in 1960. This was an "Atoms for Peace" reactor built by Canada and made operable by an essential 21 tons of heavy water supplied by the United States. In return for this assistance, India promised both suppliers in writing that the reactor would be reserved "for peaceful purposes"."
"India used plutonium from this reactor for its 1974 nuclear explosion. When the facts emerged, Indian Prime Minister Indira Ghandi insisted that there had been no violation of the "peaceful-use" commitments because India had set off a "peaceful nuclear explosion". The Indian scientist then in charge, R?? (sp) Rananna(sp?), has now admitted it was a bomb all along. [...]"
http://www.nci.org/a/a61598.htm
It is a jpg image which is a bit hard to read, but the essentials are:
"You wouldn't know it from news reports, but most of the military plutonium stocks come from a research project provided years ago by the United States and Canada. India had promised both countries that it would not use this plutonium for bombs."
[...]
"The plutonium in question is the approximately 600 pounds -- enough for about 50 bombs -- produced in India's CIRUS research reactor since it began operating in 1960. This was an "Atoms for Peace" reactor built by Canada and made operable by an essential 21 tons of heavy water supplied by the United States. In return for this assistance, India promised both suppliers in writing that the reactor would be reserved "for peaceful purposes"."
"India used plutonium from this reactor for its 1974 nuclear explosion. When the facts emerged, Indian Prime Minister Indira Ghandi insisted that there had been no violation of the "peaceful-use" commitments because India had set off a "peaceful nuclear explosion". The Indian scientist then in charge, R?? (sp) Rananna(sp?), has now admitted it was a bomb all along. [...]"