04-17-06, 02:04 PM
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Re: Iraqi WMDs revisited
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Originally Posted by Abraham
@ The Avon Lady:
I find the link you gave confusing.
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April 12 (Bloomberg) -- Iran, defying United Nations Security Council demands to halt its nuclear program, may be capable of making a nuclear bomb within 16 days, a U.S. State Department official said.
Iran will move to ``industrial scale'' uranium enrichment involving 54,000 centrifuges at its Natanz plant, the Associated Press quoted deputy nuclear chief Mohammad Saeedi as telling state-run television today.
``Using those 50,000 centrifuges they could produce enough highly enriched uranium for a nuclear weapon in 16 days,'' Stephen Rademaker, U.S. Assistant Secretary of State for International Security and Nonproliferation, told reporters today in Moscow...
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I have always heard that Iran could not produce a nuclear bomb before 2010 - which is by the way just more than three years from now. Other sources say it will even take them five to ten years.
Producing the enriched uranium within sixteen days doesn't mean producing a workable nuclear device within a few weeks, does it?
I hope we have at least a year or so for debates (and to end this thread...).  |
Would someone here care to go back a few years and list all of the in-the-future predictions on how long it was expected to take N. Korea to produce nuclear weapons?
There's a pattern here.
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