Posted on 03/04/2009 4:02:33 PM PST by Free ThinkerNY
Iran can develop a nuclear weapon within a year and has ready access to enough fissile material to produce up to 50 nuclear weapons, according to a panel of current and former U.S. officials advising the Obama administration.
William Schneider, Jr., chairman of the Defense Science Board and a former under secretary of state in the Reagan administration, offered those estimates Wednesday during a news conference announcing the release of a new "Presidential Task Force" report on Iran by the Washington Institute for Near East Policy.
The report, entitled "Preventing a Cascade of Instability: U.S. Engagement to Check Iranian Nuclear Progress," was signed by a team of policymakers, former officials and Iran scholars that included Sen. Evan Bayh, D-Ind..
Also signing on to the early draft form were two individuals expected to play significant roles in the development of the Obama administration's foreign policy: former Ambassador Dennis Ross, named last month by Secretary of State Hillary Clinton as a special envoy on the Iran issue, and Robert Einhorn, a former assistant secretary of state who is expected to accept a senior position dealing with non-proliferation issues.
The "cascade" refers to a set of 164 high-speed centrifuges used to enrich uranium to the high levels necessary to produce a nuclear weapon. The United Nations' nuclear watchdog, the International Atomic Energy Agency, recently reported that Iran has enough low enriched uranium to produce a nuclear weapon, and currently has 5,600 centrifuges operating at its pilot enrichment facility in Natanz. Iran has declared its intention to add another 45,000 centrifuges over the next five years.
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It’s not al qaeda that will take over Iraq once our troops leave. thanks to Bush, the iraqi military should be able to take care of themselves. No, it’s a nuclear armed Iran that will take it over.
Wait a minute here, just a doggone second!
OBOZO is now the KING of the World, I was SURE he was going to talk to Iran and they would be all buddy-buddy, wink-wink and we wouldn’t have to worry about NUKULAR Weapons!?!?
President BUSH was right???
Geez, why do they report such freakin trivial stuff.
Haven't they heard that the important earth shattering news is that Rush Limbaugh believes in conservative principles.
Oh,......... and the Pope is Catholic.
They can get enough to make a thousand. As long as Russia is cooperating.
Not to worry. Zero asked Putin to talk to Iran!
I've joked that Obama would dump our arsenal off on Iran for enough money to pay for his spending spree.Now I'm wondering if he'd actually do such a thing.
The jokes... That were... Never thought possible...
No problem!
We got Obambi and Hillary running the show!
Ping.
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