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November 23, 2008

Iran Said to Have Nuclear Fuel for One Weapon



Iran Said to Have Nuclear Fuel for One Weapon

NY Times....for complete article

Iran has now produced roughly enough nuclear material to make, with added purification, a single atom bomb, according to nuclear experts analyzing the latest report from global atomic inspectors.

The figures detailing Iran’s progress were contained in a routine update on Wednesday from the International Atomic Energy Agency, which has been conducting inspections of the country’s main nuclear plant at Natanz. The report concluded that as of early this month, Iran had made 630 kilograms, or about 1,390 pounds, of low-enriched uranium.

Several experts said that was enough for a bomb, but they cautioned that the milestone was mostly symbolic, because Iran would have to take additional steps. Not only would it have to breach its international agreements and kick out the inspectors, but it would also have to further purify the fuel and put it into a warhead design — a technical advance that Western experts are unsure Iran has yet achieved.

“They clearly have enough material for a bomb,” said Richard L. Garwin, a top nuclear physicist who helped invent the hydrogen bomb and has advised Washington for decades. “They know how to do the enrichment. Whether they know how to design a bomb, well, that’s another matter.”



Wild Thing's comment.....

No problem, Barack will hold an unconditional meeting with them and they’ll hand it over. It’s easy! I know ‘cause “the One” told me so.


Posted by Wild Thing at November 23, 2008 03:50 AM


Comments

But I thought the uranium was for nuclear energy...oh wait, we can't trust Iran as far as we can spit! Well, now that they've said they can hit us with one bomb, that ought to prove Bush was right and give us the reason to just smash the living daylights out of their reactor and their one lonely oil refinery and then just bomb them back to the stone age. I'm afraid they will use it and some major city will be gone in a heartbeat--do we really want our friends and family dead like that? Obamanation isn't going to start an incident. He wants to talk to them like you would a small child. Not gonna work and we all know it won't. People should have listened to Biden's prediction and voted for McCain.

Posted by: Lynn at November 23, 2008 06:55 AM


They've figured out how to do everything else so we'll just assume they know how to design the bomb. What the "experts" recently said would take a decade has now happened.

Personally, I don't think the Iranians are doing it themselves. I believe they have foreign help. When they show Iranians (on TV) working in their nuclear facilities, it looks more like an episode of the Keystone Cops.

Posted by: BobF at November 23, 2008 09:49 AM


Shortly we will see what obama is made of. Whether he holds his ground or votes present again. The next couple of months should prove telling what the Terrorists can get away with during an obama administration...Appeasement or Strike back. We shall see.

Posted by: Mark at November 23, 2008 11:33 AM


Who's to say that the Pakistani scientists won't help their muslim buddies in Iran. Or maybe some Russian nuclear scientists looking for better pay than just a few Ruples.

The Iranian nuclear program will probably reach it's goal on Obama's watch. What will he do when the Israelis take out the Iranian bomb making facilities? Will there even be an Israel after a year or so of President Obama and SecState Clinton?

Posted by: TomR at November 23, 2008 01:15 PM


Bottom line, the free world and the UN have demonstrated that they don't have the stomach to stop Iran from moving it's nuclear weapons program closer to being able to deliver at least one and even more nuclear bombs. Barack Obama has already signaled that he will do nothing to forcefully stop them. In fact, he will continue to move his lips in feckless campaign rhetoric while buying them time to complete the task.

The only issue remaining is what the world will do when Iran launches a nuclear missile and how to deal with the destruction and fallout afterward. The free world can't deal with rampant piracy off of the Somali coast today so, why should anyone trust them, particularly the United States, to be able to deal with Iran and nuclear weapons?

Posted by: Les at November 23, 2008 04:42 PM


Infidel socialists, why is 'HAM' in MoHAMad?
MO HAM please?

Posted by: darthcrUSAderworldtour07 at November 23, 2008 05:06 PM


Lynn, very true, maybe Obama thinks he can talk to these people that are natual born liars, because that is what he is too. So their talks will only turn out to be one lie against the other.

Posted by: Wild Thing at November 23, 2008 06:50 PM


BobF, I agree, I think Russia is helping Iran a lot and maybe China too.

Posted by: Wild Thing at November 23, 2008 06:51 PM


Mark, yes, there is no way he can vote present anymore. Now he has won being on the field and the play has to be made by him. No more calling it in or sitting in the bleachers.

Posted by: Wild Thing at November 23, 2008 06:53 PM


Tom, oh yes Pakistani too might help Iran. Pakistani can't be a fanof Obama much since he got in trouble during the debates with what he said about Pakistani.

If Obama favors the PLO like he has leaned toward in the past, Israel is in for some bad times.

Posted by: Wild Thing at November 23, 2008 06:59 PM


Les, I wonder if they will really do it, or just make sure we all know about it that they can and have it all set to go. But just use it as a threat.But then again they would love to use it against Israel. grrrrr

Posted by: Wild Thing at November 23, 2008 07:02 PM


Darth, heh heh the ham is there to insult them. hhahaa

MO Ham here ya go... haha

Posted by: Wild Thing at November 23, 2008 07:03 PM