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Old 01-22-2006, 19:40 PM   #47 (permalink)
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The fact in the whole crisis that realy concerns me is that Iran's nuclear programme has been hid from the world for 25 years. Is it possible they already have the bomb?
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Excerpt from ArmsControlWonk | an arms control weblog: Iran & the Bomb 1: How Close Is Iran?

When some moron like Charles Krauthammer claims Iran is now just “months” away from a bomb, you can pretty much ignore him: He has no idea what he is talking about.

Overall, Iran is probably a little less than a decade away from developing a nuclear weapon. The key question here is how long it will take Iran to enrich a few tens of kilograms of uranium to more than 90 percent U-235.

Dafna Linzer reported that the US Intelligence Community does not believe that Iran could do so before “early to mid next decade”—a revision of previous assessments that Iran would “have the ability to produce nuclear weapons early in the next decade.”
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Excerpt from ArmsControlWonk | an arms control weblog: Iran & the Bomb 2: Iran's Missiles?

Iran’s missiles aren’t that big, and its warheads aren’t that small. Without more testing of both, I think Iran would be hard pressed to deliver a missile to Israel, let alone Europe or the United States.
Strongly recommend you read the rest of the articles to relieve your bowels of stress.
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