{"id":2691,"date":"2009-12-14T12:38:00","date_gmt":"2009-12-14T17:38:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/stonescryout.org\/?p=2691"},"modified":"2009-12-14T12:38:00","modified_gmt":"2009-12-14T17:38:00","slug":"the-clock-is-ticking","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/stonescryout.org\/?p=2691","title":{"rendered":"The Clock Is Ticking"},"content":{"rendered":"

…while the world sits on its collective hands and this continues unabated<\/a>.<\/p>\n

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Confidential intelligence documents obtained by The Times<\/i> show that Iran is working on testing a key final component of a nuclear bomb. <\/p>\n

The notes, from Iran\u2019s most sensitive military nuclear project, describe a four-year plan to test a neutron initiator, the component of a nuclear bomb that triggers an explosion. Foreign intelligence agencies date them to early 2007, four years after Iran was thought to have suspended its weapons programme. <\/p>\n

An Asian intelligence source last week confirmed to The Times<\/i> that his country also believed that weapons work was being carried out as recently as 2007 \u2014 specifically, work on a neutron initiator. <\/p>\n

The technical document describes the use of a neutron source, uranium deuteride, which independent experts confirm has no possible civilian or military use other than in a nuclear weapon. Uranium deuteride is the material used in Pakistan\u2019s bomb, from where Iran obtained its blueprint. <\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n

Can we really afford to have a government so clearly desiring to destroy another country (i.e. Israel) to have a nuclear bomb?  Even if they never use it, they’d be untouchable since the threat would always be there.  <\/p>\n

Not to mention the inevitable Middle East arms race it would spawn.<\/p>\n

But OK, perhaps the world isn’t really sitting on its hands.  The United Nations has<\/em> written letters and gotten perturbed over all this.  So there’s that.<\/p>\n

But not much else.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

…while the world sits on its collective hands and this continues unabated. Confidential intelligence documents obtained by The Times show that Iran is working on testing a key final component of a nuclear bomb. The notes, from Iran\u2019s most sensitive military nuclear project, describe a four-year plan to test a neutron initiator, the component of […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[9,50,52],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-2691","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-doug","category-iran","category-middle-east"],"aioseo_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/stonescryout.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2691","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/stonescryout.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/stonescryout.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stonescryout.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stonescryout.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=2691"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/stonescryout.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2691\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/stonescryout.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=2691"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stonescryout.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=2691"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stonescryout.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=2691"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}