Drivel:  I am taking this class right now for shits and grins called the History of War.  It is very interesting stuff.  It is combination history and English course; a lot of writing and reading.  It is refreshing to be reading again.  I have not read things like this for almost ten years.  Anyway, I was doing some research for a paper of mine and ran across a page on the Canadian Coalition for Nuclear Responsibility web site entitled "Making a Bomb Using Plutonium From a Power Reactor."  I thought, "Hmm.  A little scary these days, but OK.  Let's have a look."  So I went there and found a comparision of the various plutonium isotopes that you might find in a power reactor and their relative merits for being used in making a bomb.  WOW!  I couldn't believe my eyes.

I thought about it for a couple of weeks, spoke to a few people about it, and then decided to send the FBI a quick note.  I followed that up with a note to the Coalition and their Internet services providers asking them to remove these pages.  I got a nice, but short, note back from the President of the Coalition saying that there was not enough specific information in the document and related documents to be a threat and he would rename the document so not to alarm anyone.  My response back was that this document could serve as a reference or starting point for someone wanting to create a bomb and the United State Department of Energy has removed similar documents from its web site.  I have not heard anything back since sending my reply.  I don't know about you, but this has me a little nervous.

I have been thinking about writing a program that uses all of the available search engines to compile a list of documents available on the web that contain very specific phrases that relate to nuclear and chemical weapons, their design, and manufacturing to see what I come up with.  I wonder if this would be worth something to anyone?  10:48:27 PM   comments ()