Speaking of which one of the most egregious shortcomings of the media in my
estimation has to do with the proliferation of nuclear "power". Why in the
world is an argument from Iran, for example, that they are only developing
nuclear technology for peaceful production of electric power even given an
ounce of credence? Why won't the media provide the slightest bit of
meaningful education to the public about the ridiculousness of that
argument? Nuclear power plants produce plutonium and plutonium inevitably
leads to the ability to make bombs, plain and simple. There is only one
reason for Iran to produce enriched uranium and that is to eventually have
the capability to produce atomic bombs. Now a reasonable argument may
perhaps be made concerning the right of a country such as Iran to possess
such a bomb but no reasonable argument exists as to why they are enriching
uranium.