It is possible, of course, that Iran has simply circumvented the reconnaissance efforts of America and the I.A.E.A., perhaps even building Dick Cheney's nightmare: a hidden underground nuclear-weapons fabrication facility.
Through them, Iran can achieve such goals as "unfettered access to global banking facilities, ports and airports; mining of precursor elements for WMD and advanced weapons systems fabrication; and a regional base for infiltration and contingency operations aimed at undermining the United States and its interests," Farah said.
With adherence to California State law (California Penal Code 626.9(h) Gun Free School Zone,California Penal Code 12020 Unlawful Carrying and Possession of Weapons), the Digital Fabrication Lab restricts the fabrication or modification of any object that can be considered a weapon.
Technically, it ranges from scientific discovery to industrial development, weapon design and fabrication, describing each with clarity and precision.
The company has also done futuristic fabrications like weapons and the "precognitive" characters' headgear for "Minority Report".
Carter hopes to slow down in this country and others the further spread of the technology for reprocessing spent uranium to yield plutonium, suitable for the fabrication of nuclear weapons.
The evolving Bush Doctrine implies a pre-emptive use of conventional force to take out missile launchers, industrial enterprises and facilities that appear to be involved in the fabrication of unconventional weapons.
But it would seem that the U.S. Intelligence Community, even in the wake of Shahram Amiri's return to Tehran, continues to have no evidence validating claims that there is a secret, parallel, military nuclear program in Iran, aimed ultimately at the fabrication of nuclear weapons.
In 2006, the agency released a report saying Iran had obtained from the global black market a document "related to the fabrication of nuclear weapon components".
The report characterized designs that inspectors had found in Iran, supplied by Dr. Khan's network, as clearly "related to the fabrication of nuclear weapon components". Those designs sketched out how to perfect uranium spheres, a shape that can be imploded to set off a nuclear explosion.
