Russia Is Innocent

[Danger-boy]

Some things are beginning to surface in the press which could blame America rather than Russia, as the main source of spreading biological and nuclear technology needed to make weapons of mass destruction.

In an article, U.S. News and World Report wrote that a fuel rod containing low-enriched uranium was recently recovered by Italian police from the Mafia. At first it was believed to have come from Russia, but it turned out to be from the General Atomics plant in San Diego, CA. It was shipped to Kinshasa, Congo, in 1971, but was stolen. Although it was not weapons-grade, the rod was still considered dangerous.

During the Cold War, the U.S. exported nuclear technology to Third World countries as part of the Atoms for Peace program. From the 1950s to the 1970s it distributed “huge quantities of nuclear material worldwide, including 749 kilograms of plutonium and 26.6 met-kilograms of highly enriched uranium” to many countries, including Iran, Iraq, Turkey, Pakistan and India. This program later pushed Russia into sharing its nuclear tech with North Korea and Iran. U.S. Dept of Energy said that 536 government-owned sources of plutonium, provided to 33 countries were permanently lost.

America can do very little to control the situation now, even though the U.S. is somewhat worried about loose nukes, which could be used to make dirty bombs. They are more concerned about Russia’s nuclear stockpiles and her peaceful nuclear cooperation with Iran.

Similarly, in the 1980s, the U.S. supplied Iraq with biological samples, as AP reported recently. The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention sent samples ordered for legitimate medical research by Iraq. The American Type Culture Collection sent strains of “anthrax, the bacteria that make botulinum toxin and the germs that cause gas gangrene, along with samples of other deadly pathogens, including the West Nile virus,” to Iraq. The Iraqi sites that received the samples are the ones targeted by UN inspectors as centers for production of bio weapons.

After all of this, what should Russia’s position be?

[justoleme]

That strange sign there..Could you explain the meaning of it?

[Danger-boy]

Originally posted by justoleme
That strange sign there..Could you explain the meaning of it?

I am not sure. It looks like two lovers or married people in a car. The car being blue may also mean that they are gay. You tell me.