Read my previous post. The truth is, contrary to what the author thinks, it's not that easy to build a bomb.
I’ve thought this too, many times. Either our scientists/engineers were superhuman in 1943,44,45 or the Iranians are slow.
Our project was not just an American project, but the collaboration of two of the greatest scientific powers on Earth: The US and Britain, along with the help of scientists, mathematicians, and engineers that Hitler had foolishly driven from the continent.
The American scientists who worked on the bomb, just the ones I can think of off the top of my head included, besides Oppenheimer, Nobel Prize winner I.I. Rabi, Nobel Prize winner Hans Bethe, Edward Teller and Stanislaw Ulam -- two great physicists who later designed the Hydrogen Bomb, Nobel Prize winner Ernest O. Lawrence, Nobel Prize winner Arthur Compton, Nobel Prize Winner Enrico Fermi -- probably the greatest combined experimental and theoretical physicist since Archimedes, Nobel Laureate Richard Feynman -- one of the greatest physicists of all time.
Anyone have any ideas why we were able to make one quickly and the Mullahs aren’t?
What Thomas Jefferson said of the people who assembled in Philadelphia for the writing of the Constitution could equally be applied to the scientists who participated in in the Manhattan project. It was, Jefferson wrote, "an assembly of demigods."
Point well taken, and thank you for clearing things up a bit.
At the same time, isn’t most of the “science” involved already done in Iran and from now it’s a matter of spinning a lot of centrifuges to purify the high-yield stuff?
Does it really take 10 years of spinning centrifuges to get the amount needed?
And if so, how did we do all the centrifuge spinning on relatively short order in 1943,44,45?