Bulk lasers are much closer to weaponization: the Navy's tested them at "hundreds of kilowatts" - weapons-grade, in other words. ❋ Spencer Ackerman (2011)
We had laid down a red line that if they started reprocessing nuclear fuel for weapons-grade material, it would not be tolerated, for it would mean they were a rogue nation with the threat of nuclear weapons. ❋ Walter F. Mondale (2010)
Bushehr is not among the West's main worries because safeguards are in place to ensure that spent fuel is not available for conversion into weapons-grade uranium. ❋ Unknown (2011)
The amount was enough to make at least one atom bomb if the Khan-supplied centrifuges enriched it to a weapons-grade level. ❋ Catherine Collins (2011)
Tiring of his religiosity and eccentricity, in 1999 Pakistani authorities quietly relieved Mahmood of his job as the head of a facility that produced weapons-grade plutonium. ❋ Peter L. Bergen (2011)
Their target, later identified as a not yet operational nuclear reactor modeled on the Yongbyon reactor in North Korea—a uranium-fueled reactor that is capable of producing weapons-grade plutonium as a by-product—was destroyed. ❋ Ron Rosenbaum (2011)
If we are serious about stopping the spread of these weapons, then we should put an end to the dedicated production of weapons-grade materials that create them. ❋ Unknown (2010)
It ordered the destruction of 103 pages of the records that were judged the most dangerous—the PAB weapons designs and specific instructions for enriching uranium to weapons-grade levels and constructing the hemispheres for a nuclear device. ❋ Catherine Collins (2011)
The simplest to build is the gun type, which crashes two hemispheres of weapons-grade uranium together to create the critical mass for an explosion. ❋ Catherine Collins (2011)
“There were detailed construction plans for nuclear weapons, for gas ultra-centrifuges to enrich weapons-grade uranium as well as for guided missile delivery systems.” ❋ Catherine Collins (2011)
In an analysis this month for the Nonproliferation Policy Education Center, Rand scholar Gregory S. Jones writes that even in the absence of a clandestine nuclear program, Iran can now produce a weapon's worth 20 kilograms of HEU weapons-grade uranium any time it wishes. ❋ Unknown (2011)
This raised the possibility that Iran was producing enriched weapons-grade uranium at an undisclosed facility. ❋ Catherine Collins (2011)
Countries like Germany and Japan already had the means to produce weapons-grade uranium if they chose to do so. ❋ Catherine Collins (2011)
George W. Bush's administration introduced a plan in 2006 to globally ban the production of weapons-grade nuclear materials, but the U.S. has faced stiff resistance from countries such as Pakistan. ❋ Unknown (2011)
Before the first component was manufactured, Tinner was sure that the centrifuges emerging from his factory would never enrich uranium to the weapons-grade requirements of an atomic bomb. ❋ Catherine Collins (2011)
