North Korea lights a nuke, Iran dispatches warships and Venezuela gets caught supplying uranium to Iran

Wow, what a busy Memorial Day.


North Korea lights one up underground, and fires a flurry of missiles.

Iran moves warships into the Gulf of Aden.

Israel catches Venezuela sending Uranium to Iran.

Things seem to be moving rather quickly right now.

Yet another Iranian missile test firing ...

This missile looks like it has the appropriate range (Israel). It is an "advanced" solid rocket fueled missile. Wonder where the Persians got that technology from?

"It's late in the game, and we don't have a lot of time."

Manhattan District Attorney and legendary Democrat Robert Morgenthau has confirmed beyond doubt Iranian intentions with respect to development of THE BOMB (the story was first covered here).

" . . . we have consulted with top experts in the field from MIT and from private industry and from the CIA. . . . Frankly, some of the people we've consulted are shocked by the sophistication of the equipment they're buying."

-- Robert Morgenthau, District Attorney, Manhattan

A copy of the indictment can be found here.

Apparently, the Foreign Relations Committee, chaired by John Kerry, concurs. Again, they have a timetable that says Iran is 6 months away from having enough material for a bomb. Actually, assuming 19.9 kg of U-235 on hand as of November 17, 2008, a requirement of 21.6 kg for a first bomb, and a production rate of 1.6 kg of U-235 each month, Iran would have had enough in December 2008. The weaponization of that U-235 should be just about complete.

"It's late in the game, and we don't have a lot of time."

-- Robert Morgenthau, District Attorney, Manhattan