Barry’s First Test: Iran Has The Nuclear Fuel For Its First Bomb
Posted by Bill Dupray
on Nov 20 2008 Filed under Politics.
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Terrific news. Maybe it’s time for Barry to head over and give Mahmoud that famous talking-to we’ve heard so much about. Then again, if he waits a week or two, Israel, a country with lots of stones, will just turn the Iranian nuke site into a parking lot for him. No need to worry about that awkward silence that would have ensued after Ahmadinejad stopped laughing at Barry’s lecture.
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.
But don’t worry, the (soon to be bankrupt) New York Times, tells us there are still a few hurdles before things get really dangerous.
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.â€
Nothing to worry about here. They would have to clear the extremely high hurdles of breaching international agreements and kicking out weapons inspectors. Well, that will never happen. They would be crazy to do something like that. And they could never conceal it. Don’t they know that we would know the second the inspectors left the country. Nobody is that nuts.
And they would have to actually make a bomb. Gee, I think their big Russian ally to the north knows how to make a bomb, and put it on a missile. Hell, we’re years away from any real danger.
And on the morning of the Iranian nuke strike on Tel Aviv, the New York Times will read.
While Iran has made significant gains in obtaining the technology to produce a nuclear bomb, there is still substantial doubt about whether they could actually hurt anyone with it. One major remaining stumbling block is finding someone in Iran who would actually be willing to push the launch button . . . .
Barry the Cupcake won’t do anything about this. Time to unleash Israeli pitbull.
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