[Tarpon]

The fat lady is humming and glowing.

Bush meets with Olmert this week. I wonder what that is all about.

[sionnsar]

Iran has enough material to build a bomb.

Completely raw material is one thing. Semi-processed is another. But stuff ready-to-go? I gather they aren't there yet.

[Texas Eagle]

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ew5qP2oPdtQ

Obama says Iran is a tiny country that does not pose a threat.

[Lurker]

That's "a weapon's worth," says Thomas Cochran, a senior scientist at the nuclear program of the Natural Resources Defense Council

Look at the source for this.

I'm not just taking this ponytailed whack jobs opinion with a grain of salt, I'm swallowing the entire mine.

L

[Viking2002]

"Whether they know how to design a bomb, well, that's another matter."

It's 65-year-old technology readily available on the Internet. All it takes is enough fissile material and Andy Griffith-era hardware and knowhow, and Israel is a deep world of hurt. I predict that the Israelis are gonna download on Iran any day now, and justifiably so.

[mkjessup]

Regardless of where in the assembly process the Iranians are, the fact that the 'news' is out that they've got enough material for a nuclear bomb means that it's now time for Israel to either fish or cut bait.

Every day that Israel now fails to act decisively and take out the Iranian nuke weapons program, is a day of lessened credibility for Israel's deterrent and suggests that there is no political will to act in Israel's defense.

7 years after labeling Iran (along with North Korea and Saddam's Iraq) as the "Axis of Evil", our own illustrious President has lost all of HIS credibility due to his periodic and persistent comments about how the U.S. "will not permit Iran to have a nuclear weapon". Well, Iran all but has that nuclear weapon, and Bush's past pompous pronouncements now have all the credibility of one of Joe Isuzu's old TV commercials, i.e. none.

Israel needs to act, and act fast.

This weekend would not be too soon.

[umgud]

We have plenty of time. As a matter of fact, if we just ignore the problem, it will go away. Right?

[xmission]

Wonder how big this amount of material is. Would it be possible for Israel (or us for that matter) to keep track of it’s location long enough to blow it up.

[Candor7]

Intel Ping

[jonrick46]

They would not need much nuclear material to make an EMP bomb. Just one such detonation over the United States and that would fry enough electronics to:

1. Shut down our transportation system
2. Shut down our food production equipment
3. Shut down all communications for thousands of miles
4. Shut down all heating and air conditioning control systems.
5. Shut down all refrigeration control systems
6. Shut down all aviation—airplanes in the air at the time of detonation would fall from sky.
7. Destroy satellite communications.
8. Destroy the electrical grid by burning up all transformers.
9. Destroy all computers.
10. Destroy all electronic time keeping (watches, traffic lights, etc).

Should I go on?

Just one detonation and we would not know who delivered the weapon. All we would know is it was terrorists.

[RichInOC]

No more Monica jokes.

[Don W]

"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."

Well, considering that we have had viable designs from at least two unrelated HIGH SCHOOL/COLLEGE students several years apart, does this guy or his co-MORONS think that the best and brightest of Iran are stupider than anyone else, simply because they're NOT from the west?

God save us all.

[SunkenCiv]

Iran has enough material to build a bomb.

"We'd better cut the budget for missile defense, then."

[SJackson]

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[SunkenCiv]

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.