A little scary that the US was able to enrich Uranium and build a bomb in less than 3 years.
Imagine how quickly the Iranians can do it with an instruction manual and ‘permission’ to acquire more centrifuges.
You got that right.
I’ve thought this too, many times. Either our scientists/engineers were superhuman in 1943,44,45 or the Iranians are slow.
Why does it take the Iranians this long ? Haven’t they been working on this for about 10 years?
Certainly it’s not our “inspections” holding them back. I just wonder why it’s so hard for them to do it. Recall Netanyahu said about 2-4 years ago in his speech to congress that the Iranians would have a nuke March of the next year and showed his bomb drawing at the podium?
Anyone have any ideas why we were able to make one quickly and the Mullahs aren’t?
They started with nothing but a chalkboard and a place to mine. And it took them 3 years.
Today we are told that Iran can start with;
A) students sent to physics, engineering, and science universities all over the earth.
B) the advantage of existing designs,
C) CAD/CAM and modern electronics, materials and computers,
D) experienced atomic scientists for sale,
E) All the raw materials available inside Iran.
And Obama tells us it may take decades
“A little scary that the US was able to enrich Uranium and build a bomb in less than 3 years.
Imagine how quickly the Iranians can do it with an instruction manual and ‘permission’ to acquire more centrifuges.”
I fear Iran probably already HAS the Bomb. They PROBABLY now HAVE the moderately enriched U-235 gun barrel type, too simple to need to test, as in fact the US never did. (Our Trinity test 07/16/1945 was the plutonium 239 implosion design, replicated and dropped at Nagasaki, but Hiroshima’s bomb was never judged necessary to test, as it needed no krytrons.) Iran can initiate a supercritical fission reaction with 20% enrichment levels, with the right quantity and geometry of U-235, although the device would be lighter and more compact with 90%+ enrichment. I would NOT trust them without immediate full, UNRESTRICTED inspections. What ELSE are they hiding? Sanctions forever until we get REAL inspections!