#2, Former head US Nuc Inspection Agency (A seemingly straight shooter) said Japan has 10 tons of Pu from nuc power reactors in storage. In his words, "If Japan did everything right, they could have bomb in 3 months; everything wrong, 6 months." Know it is constitutionally prohibited, but when has any law written to appease some group 60 years ago every stopped anyone?My contacts at the DOE tell me that Japan could actually construct a nuclear device in a matter of hours. They have all the materials and have likely manufactured all of the components. It is probably just a matter of putting the pieces together.
Would not surprize me at all.