[following a private discussion off-list...] >From what we get from the newspapers, we had a site that was prepared to host the explosion of an A-Bomb. br president Collor destroyed that site, in a show of propaganda, when he officially cancelled the secret nuclear project.
OTOH, it�s so easy to build an A-Bomb that I wouldn�t be surprised if they did build them and then unmade them. For example, in gov.br official site... http://www.mct.gov.br/Temas/nuclear/evolucao.htm ... when they describe the evolution of the nuclear program, there is a _huge_ gap from 1979 to 1995, where "nothing" was done. Also, in Collor�s page... http://www.collor.com/dis_novmex.htm ... he writes: No que diz respeito ao programa nuclear brasileiro, o meu governo teve um resultado que n�o poderia ser melhor: o fim da aventura nuclear e, consequentemente, o fim de um per�odo de confronta��o. Embora o projeto at�mico fosse secreto, no Brasil, eu j� tinha conhecimento dele mesmo antes da minha posse. Ap�s esta, informado concretamente pelos meus assistentes militares, decidi que os esfor�os do governo deveriam ser concentrados no programa econ�mico j� iniciado e resolvi parar com a aventura. Mistranslation: About the br nuclear plan, my g*vernment did the best possible: the end of the nuclear adventure and the end of confrontation. Even though the atomic project was secret, I had known about it before I became president. After that, consulting my military assessors, I decided that all efforts of the g*vernment should be concentrated on the economy and I stopped the adventure. [he continues saying that Argentina had a secret nuclear and biological project too, and that they cancelled theirs after we cancelled ours] Alberto Monteiro
