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...nuclear bomb, you start off with the same basic material: uranium. In both civilian and military nuclear programs, mined uranium is converted into a gas and then enriched in centrifuges to increase the proportion of U-235--the uranium atoms that start and continue a nuclear chain reaction. Uranium that feeds a power plant needs only 3% enrichment, but a nuclear warhead requires at least 90% enrichment, and more centrifuges. The difference is so significant that international inspectors would probably detect the enrichment change unless Iran chose to enrich its uranium covertly, slowing the process. A country with civilian nuclear...
...immediately said the report justified his vote against designating the Iranian Revolutionary Guard Corps as a terrorist organization and imposing sanctions on it. But the NIE's major conclusion is that Iran calibrates its nuclear efforts--including the suspension of the weaponization part--in a real-world cost-benefit reaction to outside pressure. It makes the case precisely for sanctions...
When Cutler first heard that he was ranked 28th on Details Magazine’s 50 most influential men under 45, his reaction was, “What exactly is Details Magazine and what...
...night of the J. Harv’s life. FM sat down with Alex R. Breaux ’09, who played Harvard, to shoot the shit about the man himself. FM: When you received word that you had been selected to portray John Harvard, what was your initial reaction? AB: Initially, I wasn’t told it was going to be a biop about John Harvard, so I was just excited to get the role. It’s always very reaffirming when you get a bigger role in something. FM: No one knows what John Harvard actually...
...reaction by most Sudanese to Gibbons' lenient sentence was mostly benign; still, the government's fears of a larger backlash bordered on paranoia. Riot police were deployed, and Internet access to some stories was denied. Lord Ahmed, one of a pair of British parliamentarians who traveled to Khartoum as private citizens - and as co-religionists with the Sudanese - to secure Gibbons' release, told TIME that Sudan's President Omar al-Bashir admitted to them he was weighing a retrial - on stricter charges...