On Tue, 14 Sep 2004, Major Variola (ret) wrote: > How about Iran stating that they're messing with UF6, when Israel[1] is > a known pre-emptive bomber of Facilities to the East? That's pretty > much tickling the dragon.
Maybe they are playing a different game. They couldn't use the eventually produced nukes anyway, without being showered back with the same kind - but an entire Middle East crammed full of decently pissed Arabs may be well-worth of one lousy sacrificed reactor. A PR campaign with virtually guaranteed results is cheap for that price. > [1] A wholly 0wn3d subsidiary of the US. Or perhaps vice-versa. Don't be so harsh on them. "Mutual ownership of controlling stocks" is likely to be more accurate description.
