…ven should this deal go through, Israel will engage in acts of war against Iran, such as targeting Iranian scientists for assasination. And, as the Liberty incident proved, Israel is not beyond employing false flag operations in order to drag us into conflict. As members of the NE community, your silence about this epic current unfolding crisis does not speak well of you. Right, left, or independent, will you once again stand mute as scientists ar…
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Contradicting Arjun Makhijani’s claim about bombs from power reactors
…d billions, lose an unforesesable number of troops…….then what? Occupy Iran? You think the Iranians, after we’ve raised their infrastructure and killed millions of them, are going to lose their ambitions to kill Americans and abandon their efforts to acquire nuclear weapons? Take a hypothetical….. Iran builds its first nuclear bomb tomorrow….. Now, fast forward ten years…. That enough time to test, build up an inventory, develop a delive…
Addressing remaining concerns about nuclear energy
…in economically motivated efforts by Israel and Saudi Arabia to constrain Iran’s ability to compete in international markets and capture sales. Painting Iran as a pariah has successfully encouraged the development of international sanctions regimes that severely constrained Iran’s hydrocarbon sales for a half a decade or more. Keeping that country from building nuclear plants to supply domestic energy needs will ensure that it keeps burning oil a…
Nuclear fission energy is superior to other energy sources
…States and Britain reacted by organizing a military coup, overthrowing the Iranian democracy, and establishing a monarchy. In 1979, Iranian anger with the Shah and his foreign backers fueled the Iranian Revolution and the country’s anti-American sentiments. US alliances with other Arab monarchs, and with Saddam Hussein of Iraq, have had similarly troubled outcomes. US military forces are in the Middle East because Iran and Saudi Arabia each have t…
Nuclear Energy Aspirations Are Legitimate; Even if You Live in an Oil Producing Nation
…ournalists, and even some of my fellow members of the military have viewed Iran as a boogyman. I clearly remember sitting in the stands at Navy Marine Corps Stadium at a football game during the fall of my junior year when hostages had been taken at the American embassy in Iran. The memorable phrase that I heard during a conversation with one of my fellow students was a desire to turn the whole country into a “glass parking lot”. I heard the same…
Lewis Strauss was no fan of useful atomic energy
…that Brian claims that both sides used chemicals. However, verification of Iran‘s use of chemicals was never established. Note that Iran has been extremely active in the efforts to ban such weaponry, and has signed onto all treaties and agreements pursuing that banishment. http://foreignpolicy.com/2013/08/26/exclusive-cia-files-prove-america-helped-saddam-as-he-gassed-iran/ Jeff S Rod, How do you come to your conclusion, “Notice that Strauss consi…
Looking at Recent Events Through Fuels Market Lenses
…Russia and Iran that discusses the ups and downs in a relationship between Iran and Russia. The author talks about the way that Russia has been making billions by selling Iran partially completed systems that have little actual value because they are not finished. He mentions the long lasting Bushehr nuclear reactor project that is still not producing any electricity and an air defense system where a key component has been held up for more than tw…
Energized by young nuclear enthusiasts
…ht expect with a conference full of nuclear engineers. Netanyahu describes Iran’s proximity to nuclear weapon Goldston started off his talk with a slide depicting Israeli Prime Minister Netanyahu and his famous “Wiley Coyote” bomb designed to increase awareness about the close approach that Iran was making towards having enough weapons grade material to construct a bomb. He went on to explain some of the detailed technical considerations and trade…
Condescension is not a good basis for foreign policy
…rogram. “If the Russians are willing to do that, which I support, then the Iranians do not need to learn how to enrich,” President Bush said Monday. “If the Iranians accept that uranium for a civilian nuclear power plant, then there’s no need for them to learn how to enrich.” Think about that for a bit. Iran is a country with a long and rich history dating back thousands of years. It has been a bit participant in the world’s energy business for at…
Ali Saleh al-Barrak – head of Saudi Electricity Co. – suggests "Nuclear is definitely the future"
…raging the Shah to develop nuclear power plants and I have met a number of Iranian born engineers over the years who came to the US to study during that time and stayed after the Revolution. I also have read and reread Daniel Yergin’s seminal work The Prize: the Epic Quest for Oil, Money and Power. Throughout that massive book there are numerous passages about the Saudi/Iranian rivalry for oil markets and political power within the Middle East and…
Tight markets empower suppliers
…0. http://www.cbsnews.com/stories/2001/11/14/world/main318030.shtml Though Iran does not publish much information about its finances, simple math shows that they could have accumulated a substantial cash balance, especially when that amount is compared to the amount that they would have expected to accumulate if oil prices had remained in the already profitable range of $22-28 per barrel that was the established goal as recently as 4 years ago. Ir…
Nuclear Power Cooperation with India
…ve been published over the years about that deal: Not a pipedream: back to Iran gas pipeline option R K Pachauri, The Times of India, 17 August 2000 Analysis: Iran-Pakistan-India Gas Pipeline Imperiled India, Pakistan Begin Talks on Gas Pipeline from Iran The country has been working on developing its nuclear power industry for more than forty years. India has developed an indigenous Pressurized Heavy Water Reactor (PHWR) design and has several pr…
