Guest Vern Gagne Posted September 30, 2002 Report Posted September 30, 2002 Actually, it was the Saudis who begged us not to. Ungrateful bastards. You're country would of been after Kuwait if it wasn't for the U.S.
Guest Samurai_Goat Posted October 2, 2002 Report Posted October 2, 2002 Ug. This is the third time I've tried to post this, so wish me luck. If you're seeing this, thanks. Anyway, in case you haven't heard, there was a slight miscalculation of the amount of weapons grade uranium. They said, what, 33 pounds? Well, it's a little less than that: about 4 ounces. Heard it on the radio, so I hope I was listening to something real. But, even if it is real, I think it's ok. I mean, it's probably that whole metric to standard conversion thingy. Who can blame them for being a bit off?
Guest Samurai_Goat Posted October 3, 2002 Report Posted October 3, 2002 Ok, ok, I was wrong, 5 ounces, but it's the thought that counts.
Guest EricMM Posted October 3, 2002 Report Posted October 3, 2002 And people wanted weapons grade uranium why? To make into a scuplture of some sort? please.
Guest Agent of Oblivion Posted October 3, 2002 Report Posted October 3, 2002 That U-235 is worth a pretty amazing amount of money. Of the three bombs we used in WWII (one test, 2 in combat), only 2 of them were Uranium bombs, IIRC. The other was Plutonium. We didn't even have enough U-235 for another bomb. It took a small city an astronomical amount of money and man-hours to refine what little was used. Of course, methods are much more efficient now.
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