Iran has enough material to build a bomb.
"We'd better cut the budget for missile defense, then."
Posted on 11/20/2008 5:46:57 PM PST by Kaslin
Mideast: Experts say Iran now has enough fissionable material to develop a nuclear weapon. Israel has operational plans to attack Iran. We may soon have more than the stock market to worry about.
According to a routine update issued Wednesday by the International Atomic Energy Agency, which is the U.N.'s toothless watchdog, Iran had by early this month made 630 kilograms, or 1,390 pounds, of low-enriched uranium.
That's "a weapon's worth," says Thomas Cochran, a senior scientist at the nuclear program of the Natural Resources Defense Council — enough for an advanced implosion-type weapon such as the bomb we dropped on Nagasaki in August 1945.
"They clearly have enough material for a bomb," agrees Richard Garwin, a top nuclear physicist who helped invent the hydrogen bomb. "They know how to do the enrichment. Whether they know how to design a bomb, well, that's another matter."
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Iran has enough material to build a bomb.
"We'd better cut the budget for missile defense, then."
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The problem with kicking the can down the road is that sometimes you run out of road. The West has been fiddling while Iran pursues a nuclear weapon. Now comes word that we can stop counting centrifuges and whistling past the graveyard. Iran has enough material to build a bomb.
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