[cmccuist]

In order to produce a nuclear bomb, the uranium has to be 95% enriched or so. The uranium used in nuclear power plants is 3-7% enriched i believe. That's why a power plant can't explode (the mushroom cloud type explosion). The power plant can still melt down and then release contaminated steam with alpha and beta particles (but no nuetron radiation).

The enrichment process is very involved and expensive, but you don't need very much material to make a big blast (e=mc^2).

As far as who we supported or who we support now - that's an exercise in madness. We dropped atomic bombs on Japan and they're our best buddies now. We bombed Germany into rubble and - well they still hate us. We helped the French in both WWI and II and they hate us too!

The Brits and Aussies are the only ones we can really count on - and maybe Poland.

Craig