IAEA December 2006 report: Iran in serious non-compliance

[Lemon law]

Originally posted by: Common Courtesy
How long did it take the US to develop a nuke 60+ years ago?

And you do not think Iran is not capable of doing the same thing when they are not being handcuffed?

And they are not starting from scratch like the US did.

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It took the USA 3 years in a crash project to obtain three critical masses of fissionable material.
One was used in a test bomb, the one used on Hiroshima was a U235 based bomb that was refined at Oak Ridge, TN, and the one used on Nagasaki was a plutonium based bomb that came from breeder reactors from Hanfort, Washington part of the project.

Had the last bomb failed to produce a Japanese surrender, there was no more critical masses left in the arsenal and it might have been many months if not a year or better to come up with another.

From the reports I am hearing now, Iran is having problems with even low grade Uranium enrichment and the Iranian economy can not sustain that kind of a crash program.

In the case of North Korea, their first test bomb, from all reports, was more of a plutonium based fizzle.

Thus far, no member of the nuclear weapons club has ever been invaded by a hostile nation, and therein may be the allure. But a Pakistani example could explode that myth of invulnerability in the future.

 

[Jaskalas]

Looks like Israel and the United States have been pushed closer to a war with Iran.

Originally posted by: Lemon law
Thus far, no member of the nuclear weapons club has ever been invaded by a hostile nation, and therein may be the allure. But a Pakistani example could explode that myth of invulnerability in the future.

Yet nuclear nations have been attacked. How does MAD apply to privatized acts of war? How does one respond to a single terrorist you cannot ID after he detonates his nuclear device?

I?d say the running theory is that we cannot respond to that which we cannot see. Therefore, we are wide open to attack and the killing of millions.