So where did Brazil acquire these "imported high-performance centrifuges"? Answer: West Germany:

Nuclear Weapons Programs

Now, while neither Brazil nor West Germany are known for being led by nutjobs (...er...well...), at least not the apocalyptic nutjobs in Tehran, or the People's Paradise nutjobs in North Korea, I hope you have been paying attention to my posts about nuclear weapons, and Germany, for while the west is busily pointing the finger at China and North Korea for nuclear proliferation, we might look a little closer to cultural home.

As I've noted in interviews and elsewhere on this blog site, West Germany, according to the 1978 New York Times book The Nuclear Axis, was the deep hidden player in South Africa's and Israel's acquisition of the bomb, and as I've also noted, Germany builds France's submarine launched ICBM and its thermonuclear warheads in one of those nifty Franco-German consortia that the Europeans like to do (think Airbus here). And now, Brazil's centrifuges.

We are looking, in short, at more evidence of a de facto nuclear power in the heart of Europe, and one which, moreover, has been in the quiet forefront of nuclear proliferation.

See you on the flip side....