Posts Tagged ‘Yellowcake’

Wednesday, July 9th, 2008 at 3:59pm

Yellowcake

Posted by Tom Skypek in Iraq, Nuclear Proliferation

Today’s Examiner had an outstanding editorial on the significance of the 550 metric tons of Uranium recently removed from Iraq.  States don’t stockpile Yellowcake for peaceful purposes.  Of course, the mainstream media has been silent on this story.  The Editor’s, however, were not:

Here’s the key point: As noted in 2004 by The American Thinker, Norman Dombey, professor of theoretical physics at the University of Sussex, England, said there was no peaceful use in Iraq for the yellowcake because all three of Saddam’s nuclear facilities had been destroyed years before. Once enriched, the 550 tons of yellowcake would be sufficient to produce up to 142 nukes,…

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