UAVs to Monitor Iran's Nuclear Weapons Enrichment Program and Testing

By [http://ezinearticles.com/?expert=Lance_Winslow]Lance Winslow
Okay so, apparently, the old CIA assessment of Iran and their nuclear enrichment program to make nuclear weapons was wrong, and the Iranians didn't actually stop those centrifuges. Of course, that wouldn't be the first time the CIA assessments of a foreign government's WMD program was incorrect. See that point.
Now then, let's let bygones be bygones and consider where we are today. Is there a way we can for sure know that Iran has stopped enriching uranium? Hard to say if we can be 100% accurate using satellites, or other intelligence, but I have another idea for this.
First, however, I'd like to state that I feel the answer to this issue is somewhat irrelevant, and that pre-emption is more than justified NOW, as Iran has been funding terrorist organizations, Hamas and Hezbollah and that is well known. Further, Iran has assisted in the insurgency in Iraq and Afghanistan, meddling in the stabilizing of those nations.
Let's discuss however a concept on how to do proper surveillance to verify that Iran is or isn't working on nuclear weapons. You see, there are many ways to test for nuclear weapons work - spectral imaging from Satellites, downwind air quality checks using sunlight and UAVs (or micro-air vehicles in grid formation) to gather samples
The NOAA has this technology, they use it for weather data, and/or can use it for collecting pollution particulate. Here is how I would envision this happening;
Small micro-air vehicles can penetrate without detection, like small birds, especially using special materials, upload information to satellite, relay to ship in Arabian Sea. Also we can use Sunlight backdrops and long-range frequency scanning for specific concentrations of various gases released in the enrichment process, as we did with N. Korean from the S. Korean side.
The micro-air vehicles can fly in a grid pattern at the proper altitude to collect the air-samples, then send the data to the satellites if the gases that follow uranium enrichment are present. Even if the MAVs or micro-air vehicles cannot make it back, that's okay, at least we have the data we need, and we can self-destruct these units to prevent them from getting into the hands of the enemy in this case.
It seems that the "trust but verify" concept of the Reagan Administration is completely out the window, as the Iranian leadership has been less-than-forthcoming in the past on this issue, not only with the US, NATO, UN, but also with the IAEA. It's time to verify what we already know, so we can feel good about the decisions we are making, but trust must be earned, unfortunately it hasn't in this case. What's that quote; "Shame on Me?"
Lance Winslow has launched a new provocative series of eBooks on [http://www.amazon.com/s/ref=nb_sb_noss?url=search-alias%3Ddigital-text&field-keywords=Lance+Winslow#/ref=nb_sb_noss?url=search-alias%3Ddigital-text&field-keywords=Future+Concepts&rh=n%3A133140011%2Ck%3AFuture+Concepts]Future Concepts. Lance Winslow is a retired Founder of a Nationwide Franchise Chain, and now runs the Online Think Tank; http://www.worldthinktank.net
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