Community | October 19, 2009 | 8 comments

Report: Iran incapable of producing nuke within six to eight years

source: http://rawstory.com/2009/10/report-iran-incapable-producing-nuke-years/

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A Washington Post report published Sunday is drawing a wave of cheers across the Internet for revealing what is being hailed as "the truth" about Iran's nuclear program.

Specifically, the report states that Iran is incapable of producing a nuclear bomb within the next six to eight years, turning on ear repeated claims in media that Iran is only a short time away from possessing such a weapon.

"The regime's most likely path to the bomb begins in Natanz, in central Iran, the site of the nuclear facility where over the past three years about 1,500 kilograms of uranium gas has been enriched to low levels," Joseph Cirincione wrote. "Iran could kick out U.N. inspectors, abandon the Non-Proliferation Treaty and reprocess the gas into highly enriched uranium in about six months; it would take at least six more months to convert that uranium into the metal form required for one bomb. Technical problems with both processes could stretch this period to three years. Finally, Iran would need perhaps five additional years -- and several explosive tests -- to develop a Hiroshima-yield bomb that could be fitted onto a ballistic missile."
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8 comments // Report: Iran incapable of producing nuke within six to eight years

  • picKFishStudios
  • samthesixth
  • Timmyeatworld
  • hunzedog
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      hunzedog  

    • its a chessmatch where real people die and we all pay for it........how come a month ago we thought they could make nukes now all of a sudden it will take 8 years?....shit .....sounds like what they would want us to think.

    • 2 years ago
  • bansheewail
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      bansheewail  

    • This makes Obama's move to abort the missle shield in Poland look like correct move. It's a chess match of resources and he is winning.

    • 2 years ago
  • larrysnotes
  • outtheinside
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      outtheinside  

    • this really doesn't change much. the bottom line right now is that Iran didn't reveal to the IAEA it had plans and had already developed another nuclear enrichment facility. we could argue back and forth all day about intentions or include a bunch of "if" statements (as the article does), but at the end of the day and insofar as our government policy is concerned, we still have the upper hand in holding sanctions due to non-compliance to the IAEA. i still find this all so ironic that what we helped create in the 1950's is now considered one of our biggest threats...

    • 2 years ago
  • bansheewail
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