Rice On Casting Aside the Demands of the International Community

“We've got to finally demonstrate to Iran that it can't with impunity just cast aside the just demands of the international community.”

“Whatever the numbers of the vote, I don't think there's any doubt that people are quite clear that Iran has crossed a threshold.”

“They're putting a lot at risk here.”

“The Iranians have done nothing but throw all of this aside. They're isolated. They are completely isolated [whatever the numbers of the vote].”

Nedra Pickler, “Rice Wants Iran Vote As Soon As Possible,” AP, 1/16/06. [emphasis added]

Twenty-four pounds of radioactive plutonium is located in New Horizon's radioisotope thermoelectric generator, an aluminum-encased, 123-pound cylinder, 3 1/2 feet long and 1 1/2-foot wide, that sticks out of the spacecraft like a gun on a tank.

Inside the cylinder are 18 graphite-enclosed compartments, each holding 1 1/3 pounds of the plutonium dioxide. Similar generators previously have been used to power six Apollo flights and 19 other U.S. space missions.

Mike Schneider, “Anti-Nuke Activity Protest Pluto Mission,” AP, 1/16/06.