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True. Little boy weighed some 4.5 tons. I have heard before they might repaint an old Boeing and try that, but one would not cause enough damage. Iran does unfortunately have heavy Russian and Chinese assistance, both open and illicit, they may build more advanced weapons than a crude gun-type uranium bomb. I hope they cannot get anything small enough for a missile anytime soon, but it all depends on how much help they get. A scary thought is that they will or have acquired Russian or Chinese weapons designs or the weapons themselves with no warning, like with the Shkval torpedoes. Russia's stockpile is largely unsecured, they can probably get Russian plans and specifications easily, if not the materials or full thing for more advanced designs.

In State of War, Risen reveals that Clinton also had an overly ambitious plot, which eventually backfired, involving assisting an enemy with WMDs. Operation Merlin had the CIA using a Russian atomic scientist, who had defected to the United States, to sell or give nuclear bomb blueprints to Iranian diplomats at the International Atomic Energy Agency in Vienna. The catch was that the plans for the TBA 480 "firing set" contained design errors that would send Iran's scientists down the wrong path and delay their development of weapons. The TBA 480 is a Russian device for creating the implosion that sets off the nuclear chain-reaction in a bomb. The Russian scientist, whose defection does not now seem as genuine as was supposed, spotted the flaws and offered to help Iran fix the problems. But even if he had not tipped off the Iranians, other Russian and Chinese experts are known to be helping Tehran, so the design flaws would likely have been spotted at some point.

The Iranians may be a little closer to making a missile warhead than we'd like. Link to the full story below:

The Clinton Follies http://www.nationalreview.com/comment/hawkins200604241046.asp