Taiwanese Mad Bombers?

Is it just me or am I the only who doesn’t give a stuff nor sees a problem with us exporting Uranium?  I see our newspapers this morning being dominated by this issue and I am a little disappointed that such a fuss is being made of this in comparison to other issues such as the AWB inquiry and our general role in Iraq.

The reasoning for my view is that as far as I can understand it, Uranium in raw ore form requires massive amount of technology to get it to a form suitable for nuclear weaponry and also in addition to that the physical missile technology or detonation technology is another quantum step in expenditure, effort and technical know-how that is difficult to achieve.

Its like trying to argue that we should stop the Iraq war by not exporting Iron to the US to prevent their production of ammunition.  It’s the first step, but there are so many other steps in the process to get to a point of being able to detonate a nuclear warhead that really we should be able to focus on other things.

Uranium though does have significant uses in other areas, most notably in the medical profession and that I think the safe use of nuclear fuel is something that is acceptable for all people.

But we are now confronted with the headline this morning that we’re exporting Uranium to Taiwan!  Taiwan, a crowded island off the coast of China… I am sure that they have plenty of room to do nuclear testing there!

Methinks this is another Johnny Howard Red Herring story to deflect attention away from the AWB… if you read the headlines in the Sydney Morning Herald today you will see the first article on the China / Taiwan deal and the one immediately below it is about Beazley’s poor response to the issue… seems as though the politics of the issue rather than the issue itself is the prize here and we punters are once again treated like mushrooms.