Word: weaponeer
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President George W. Bush urged America's allies Tuesday to keep the pressure on Iran despite the U.S. intelligence having concluded that Tehran has not had a nuclear weapons program since 2003. "Iran was dangerous, Iran is dangerous and Iran will be dangerous if they have the knowledge necessary to make a nuclear weapon," Bush told a press conference in Washington. "The best way to ensure that the world is peaceful in the future is for the international community to continue to work together to say to the Iranians: 'We are going to isolate...
...Iraq's supposed WMD. President Bush made headlines six weeks ago by warning that Iran's nuclear activity could be the cause of World War III. Even then, his words were carefully chosen: Bush did not say World War III would be the consequence of Iran attaining a nuclear weapon; he said, "If you're interested in avoiding World War III, it seems like you ought to be interested in preventing them from hav[ing] the knowledge necessary to make a nuclear weapon...
...Bush's warning makes clear that the red line, for his Administration, is not an Iranian bomb program per se, but rather Iran's attaining "the knowledge necessary to make" such a weapon - by which he means mastering the technology of uranium enrichment. Enriched uranium is a key component (although hardly sufficient, by itself) for a nuclear weapon. But enriching uranium, to a far lower degree, is also an integral part of any civilian nuclear energy program - and, it's entirely legal for any signatory of the Non-Proliferation Treaty (NPT) in good standing to enrich uranium under IAEA monitoring...
...Washington, however, hopes that Iran can be prevented from enriching uranium at all, out of concern that once the technology is mastered, Tehran could simply withdraw from the NPT - as North Korea did - and proceed to build a nuclear weapon within a matter of months. The NIE notes that the civilian nuclear infrastructure Iran is building would put bomb-making capability within easy reach, should Tehran take a political decision...
...most importantly, India is jittery at China’s influence over Burma, especially its “string of pearls” policy of establishing bases around the Indian Ocean, including one allegedly on the Burmese island of Great Coco. India has countered this with its own weapon and radar sales, and training for the junta’s military...