Nuclear bomb

The bomb-grade plutonium that was on ice from 1994 to 2002 is now actual bombs.

Posted by Jeff from Talking Points Memo

Outstanding editorial on TalkingPoints on North Korea and Bush: "Then in the winter of 2002-3, the US prepared the invade Iraq, the North called Bush's bluff. And the president folded. Abjectly, utterly, even hilariously if the consequences weren't so grave and vast. Threats are a potent force if you're willing to follow through on them. But he wasn't. The plutonium production plant, which had been shuttered since 1994, got unshuttered. And the bomb that exploded tonight was, if I understand this correctly, almost certainly the product of that plutonium uncorked almost four years ago. So the President talked a good game, the North Koreans called his bluff and he folded."

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