{"id":290,"date":"2004-07-29T13:28:30","date_gmt":"2004-07-29T20:28:30","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/balafon.net\/?p=290"},"modified":"2004-07-29T13:28:30","modified_gmt":"2004-07-29T20:28:30","slug":"those-well-meaning-french","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/balafon.net\/?p=290","title":{"rendered":"Those Well-Meaning French"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Den Beste has a <a href=\"http:\/\/denbeste.nu\/cd_log_entries\/2004\/07\/Nuclearpowerandnuclearwea.shtml\">brief overview<\/a> of breeder reactor technology, as used in Iraq&#8217;s Osirak reactor &mdash; which Israel destroyed before it could begin producing weapons-grade material.  In an update we learn that the Iraqi reactor <i>was not even a power generator<\/i>!  It was build for the express purpose of weapons research and development.<\/p>\n<p>This shows the utter duplicity of the French claim that Israel destroyed a warm fuzzy civilian power program.  And guess who was in charge of the Osirak contract?  Jacques Chirac, of course.<\/p>\n<p>Given that Iran has just <a href=\"http:\/\/www.command-post.org\/nk\/2_archives\/013923.html\">restarted its weapons program<\/a>, in defiance of the civilized world, maybe we&#8217;ll see the Star of David or the Stars and Stripes in the air over Iran soon.  Unfortunately they seem to be running a highly destributed program that lacks a single easily-targetted source.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Den Beste has a brief overview of breeder reactor technology, as used in Iraq&#8217;s Osirak reactor &mdash; which Israel destroyed before it could begin producing weapons-grade material. In an update we learn that the Iraqi reactor was not even a power generator! It was build for the express purpose of weapons research and development. This &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/balafon.net\/?p=290\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;Those Well-Meaning French&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[4],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-290","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-world"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/balafon.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/290","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/balafon.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/balafon.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/balafon.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/balafon.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=290"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/balafon.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/290\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/balafon.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=290"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/balafon.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=290"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/balafon.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=290"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}