Iran 2-3 Months Away From It's First Nuclear Weapon
Nobel "Peace" Prize should go to George Bush, Barack Obama, and Mohammed El-Baradei.
Iran’s bank of rapidly spinning centrifuges has produced a stockpile of low-enriched uranium, able to fuel nuclear reactors, but able also to fuel nuclear weapons if further enriched by re-circulating it through the centrifuges. The re-circulation raises the concentration of the uranium isotope U-235, which fissions in nuclear weapons such as the one dropped on Hiroshima.
Based on the amount of low-enriched uranium Iran has stockpiled, and the amount it is believed to be producing each month, the Wisconsin Project estimates that by December 2008, Iran had accumulated enough U-235 to fuel one bomb quickly. "Quickly," in this context, means two to three months – about the time it would take Iran to raise the level of U-235 in its uranium stockpile from 3.8 percent to over 90 percent.
As Iran increases the number of centrifuge machines it is operating, and increases its stockpile of low-enriched uranium, it will consolidate its status as a "virtual" nuclear weapon state.
In hindsight, people criticize Bill Clinton for not having killed Osama Bin Laden. In fact, there are many people who make such a criticism central to their denunciation of his Presidency.
And, that's with hindsight.
We don't need hindsight to understand what happens when you put nukes in the hands of raving religious maniacs.
This situation is George Bush's fault. The decision was his responsibility. History will scorn his cowardice on this particular issue.
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