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Fakenukes { November 17 2001 } Original Source Link: (May no longer be active)    http://www.nytimes.com/2001/11/17/international/asia/17SPOO.html?searchpv=nytToday http://www.nytimes.com/2001/11/17/international/asia/17SPOO.html?searchpv=nytToday November 17, 2001 Was Paper on Bomb a Parody? By NICHOLAS WADE "For whatever other dark business may have occurred in the Al Qaeda safe houses in Kabul, a lot of time and effort had been devoted within them to researching the creation of an atomic device," The Times of London reported on Thursday. But according to Jason Scott, a reporter for a Web newsletter, rotten.com, the document was not quite so chilling a display of nuclear knowledge as The Times might have believed. Mr. Scott searched the Web for phrases visible in a film of The Times's document broadcast by the BBC and discovered its source, a spoof published in 1979 in a takeoff on scientific journals known as The Journal of Irreproducible Results. The BBC showed a paragraph that described the implosion principle by which a nuclear fission weapon is triggered. But the next paragraph in the parody reads, "In next month's column, we will learn how to clone your neighbor's wife in six easy steps." Chris Broadhurst, an editor on The Times's foreign desk, said he was unable to reach the author of its article, Anthony Loyd, and could not comment on the assertions in the rotten.com article. The BBC did not respond to questions. Rotten.com posts articles that include the weird and the scatological. The editor, who would not give his name for reasons of personal safety, said he ran a "shock Web site" that published "all the news that's not fit to print." Mr. Scott said he had written his article about the "nuclear" report because "here you have some guy acting like this is the end of the world, and all it is is some idiotic joke file."

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