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Home » Nukes » Iran’s Bomb: How Close?

Iran’s Bomb: How Close?

A cabal of terrorist-funding, virulently anti-Semitic, nuclear-armed mullahs is bad, no question. Really bad. But just how awful is the awful situation in Iran?
iran_nuclear.jpgThose conflicting, confusing reports in the press are no help. So I begged the Arms Control Wonk, Dr. Jeffrey Lewis, to give us some straight answers on three-and-a-half basic questions about Iran:

1. How far is Tehran from getting the Bomb?
2. How easily could that Bomb be attached to missile, and how far can that missile go?
3. How hard would it be for the U.S. or Israel to knock out Iran’s nuclear facilities?

Today, the Wonk takes on the first question. The quick answer is that we’ve probably a little less than a decade until the shit hits the fan, atomically-speaking. Unless the mullahs get really, really lucky. And then it’s more like three years until the big showdown.
But don’t take my word for it. Go read the whole thing for yourself. Even the math. Even the bit about cascading centrifuges. You’ll be a little less unnerved, once you know more about the engineering and the science behind Tehran’s nuclear push.
UPDATE 6:22 PM: If the Wonk’s analysis made you feel slightly better, this Joe Katzman post should take care of that, quick.
(Big ups: Glenn)

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  1. RockyB. says:
    January 20, 2006 at 9:56 pm

    The question shouldn’t be, how close; but how soon can we & our allies hit these facilities, when these unreasonable & rabid idealogues, very predictably, continue ondown this road to nuclear capability.
    Rather to deal with their & the pundits song & dances, and any conventional repurcussions; than to deal with a certain domino effect exchange of nuclear weapon launches. If & when that ever happens, anyone with any sanity should seek most probable ground zeros. To be a survivor after would be the most terrible thing anyone could ever wish upon themselves.…

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  2. Elmore says:
    January 21, 2006 at 11:39 pm

    You people are incredibly stupid and gullible. Iran does not now have the capacity to make nuclear weapons, and will never have.

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  3. Greg says:
    January 23, 2006 at 11:59 am

    “You people are incredibly stupid and gullible. Iran does not now have the capacity to make nuclear weapons, and will never have.
    Posted by: Elmore at January 21, 2006 11:39 PM“
    I dont believe the phrase, “I know you are but what am I?” has ever applied any better than in this case.
    Iran possesses all the necessary technology, and the know how to make and carryout nuclear warfare. They are not idiots and they certainly have no reservations about sacrifice to their people. It takes time to refine and implement these items but they’ve had time, and now they are just finishing the process they started before the UN lockouts were in place. Iran has both launched satalites into space(step one in an ICBM project) and actively pursued refineing nuclear material to weapons grade status. This is not a matter of will they posess these weapons but when, unless something changes drastically with the world political view on Iran.
    Don’t hide your head in the sand, you only get your ass kicked.

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  4. RockyB. says:
    January 23, 2006 at 11:06 pm

    Remember…that during the Iran/Iraq War, many in the Iranian leadership (that are still there) encouraged & ordered their own young children to cross border minefields& get themselves blownup, in order to make safe paths for their soldiers to cross over. There is no moral conscience nor regard for life here; no matter what the excuse.
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    Axis: N.Korea, Iran, Syria, Russia, China
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