I don’t buy it at all. They are enriching uranium to 20% U-235.. hardly the contentractions needed for a bomb. I call shenanigans.... I dont doubt their intentions, but I seriously doubt their technical ability. I don’t think They will have a bomb any time soon, even the simplest Little Boy style bomb (the uranium gun bomb) would need at least 80% enrichment for them to get it to work....
I don’t think it is technical expertise is the limiting thing so far. Enriching uranium isn’t that hard, it’s just expensive and time-consuming. Then the cannon-type bomb isn’t all that hard to make either. They’ll definitely be able to build them. It’s just a matter of when.
So far, the word is that they still have a ways to go. But those reports could all be wrong.