[dighton]

What we worked out sixty years ago stymies some here and now. The mind reels.

[Flavius]

is that over under

wonder if vegas has pool going

this could be fun

i say they have them, but they did not unpack them yet from the original packaging

[doc1019]

Depending on whom you listen to … Iran is “two months”, “six months”, “three years” … whatever; a preemptive stick is in order. Then the question disappears.

[headstamp]

Is this solely a technical problem for high grade enrichment or low grade enrichment for the power plant?

[Not now, Not ever!]

A sign written in English? yeh, right.

[KarlInOhio]

It took less than four years from the beginning of the Manhattan Project to the bombing of Hiroshima and Nagasaki. Since Iran already is well on its way to developing the bomb and so much of the nuclear physics which the Manhattan Project had to discover is now readily available, anyone who comes up with a four year estimate for any halfway industrialized country with cash to develop a nuclear bomb is a liar, a fool or both.

[Rembrandt_fan]

All of this activity emanating from the Iranian nuclear program is a lot of smoke-and-mirrors misdirection, in my view. It simply doesn’t matter if the Iranians can make enough (or any) weapons-grade U-235. It only matters if the world believes they can, hence this great Iranian show of fierce scientific effort to build the bomb. I’m guessing the mullahs will wait for a believable amount of time—a year from now, say, or eighteen months or so—and then surprise the world with a highly visible and widely reported atomic bomb test much earlier than anticipated or projected by the intelligence sources identified in the article. No one could prove provenance after the fact, one way or the other, but the device will almost certainly be old Soviet or North Korean. I’m betting North Korean. Putin may not shrink from the prospect of a new Cold War, but I doubt very much he would risk a hot one.

[M. Espinola]

An Iranian arsenal of nuclear weapons is not the current threat to our troops in Iraq and Afghanistan. Iranian trained & armed jihadist infiltrators are murdering our troops, plus the mass slaughter of thousands of Iraqi civilians. That is more then enough reason Tehran’s top Shi’ite-nazis must be disposed of quickly.

[stephenjohnbanker]

1 1/2 years. Not 4.

[rjp2005]

Don't believe it.

AQ according to their "Seven Steps to..." plans a 2010 hit. Iran will be ready to collaborate with them by then. Two years and they'll have a functional device. One year to smuggle it in.

[Nathan Zachary]

Iran Four Years From Atomic Bomb, Say Experts

That's what the "experts" said 4 years ago. In all probability, they have several now. Does anyone really believe that Paki-Stan's Mullah mafia hasn't sold any to their Iranian "brothers in Jihad, all the world is for Allah" fundamentalist nutjobs?