How Iran Can Build a Bomb
Foreign Policy / JOSEPH CIRINCIONE, ELISE CONNOR
02-Jul-2010 (4 comments)


Today, U.S. President Barack Obama signs into law the next round of unilateral sanctions taking aim at Iran's energy sector. With this bill, Washington is seeking to stem what many view as Tehran's imminent nuclear future. But how imminent is that future, exactly?  

Some would say it is very imminent. On June 27, CIA Director Leon Panetta estimated that it would take Iran approximately two years to build a nuclear bomb if it made the decision to do so. The Wall Street Journal seized on his statement, warning hysterically on June 29 that "Iran stands barely two years from an atomic bomb that could target Israel, Europe and beyond."

 Pundits, too, have consistently claimed that Iran is just around the corner from acquiring nukes. Washington Post columnist Charles Krauthammer, for example, urgently warned in July 2004, "Iran will go nuclear during the next presidential term." In January 2006, heclaimed, "Iran is probably just months away." A few months later, in September, when no bomb appeared, he  >>>

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by Onlyiran on Fri Jul 02, 2010 09:29 PM PDT

you're welcome.  As far as the time frame, I guess so...unless the IRI does something else that is REALLY stupid which you and I cannot think of between now and then. 


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Thanks Onlyiran

by benross on Fri Jul 02, 2010 09:20 PM PDT

Very interesting article... and good news too.

So, I take it we have time, roughly until 2013 to change the regime, before Iran vaporize.


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by Onlyiran on Fri Jul 02, 2010 07:49 PM PDT

I know.  I tried to fix it and re-did the post, but the problem exists.  here's the link anyway:

 //www.foreignpolicy.com/articles/2010/07/01/how_iran_can_build_a_bomb


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It doesn't link to the rest

by benross on Fri Jul 02, 2010 07:06 PM PDT

It doesn't link to the rest of the article.


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