Scientist claims US ignored his method of detecting concealed weapons of mass destruction
26 February 2003
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If Iraq has weapons of mass destruction well concealed, United Nations weapons inspectors may face great difficulty in finding them. But, according to US computer scientist, Richard R. Sills, there is a way to determine where these weapons are, even if they are concealed and even if Iraq does not cooperate. Sills has patented an 'analog processing system' (APS) which re-analyses the visual data coming from observation satellites through the process of 'spectrometry'.
According to Sills, in late summer of 2002, he made a presentation to Dr Leslie J. Deutsch, the chief engineer of the Jet Propulsion Laboratory (JPL) at the California Institute of Technology. The terms of the meeting were that Sills would not receive any compensation, nor would he be exposed to any 'sensitive' information. The proposed technology was considered for a few months and then on 6 November 2002, in a letter to Sills, the Analog Processing System was ostensibly turned down by the JPL.
"This letter poses serious concerns as to why the US is not providing specific evidence to verify Iraq's possession of these weapons, even if hidden by any means, if we have 'other techniques' to do so, as Dr Deutsch clearly states in his letter," said Sills. "This APS would seem to be the exact method the President and the UN need to locate nuclear bombs and biological warfare agents, hence, it is now being offered to the world scientific community."
For more information contact Susan Reymond, [email protected]
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