Posted on 02/28/2023 7:50:54 PM PST by TigerClaws
Iran could now produce “one bomb’s worth of fissile material” in “about 12 days,” a top US Defense Department official said Tuesday.
Under Secretary of Defense for Policy Colin Kahl offered one of the most striking US government assessments to date of Iran’s “breakout time” as efforts to try to restore the Iran nuclear agreement remain halted and Tehran continues to breach the restrictions set out by the deal.
Kahl said that “Iran’s nuclear progress since” the Trump administration withdrew the United States from the 2015 nuclear deal “has been remarkable.”
“Back in 2018, when the previous administration decided to leave the JCPOA, it would have taken Iran about 12 months to produce one fissile, one bomb’s worth of fissile material,” Kahl said at a House Armed Services Committee hearing, using the acronym for the formal name of the deal: the Joint Comprehensive Plan of Action.
“Now it would take about 12 days,” he said.
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Yep
I agree that’s a distinct possibility.
Perhaps but with Russia pulling out of the Start treaty They can now be fully armed in an hour, Should Russia choose to do so
Easier to believe the entire Arabian Peninsula and Israel are pondering annihilation of Iran and pondering fallout trajectories.
Maybe Kamala should go to Iran instead.
Paging Mossad . . .
I would prefer to see the Golden Calf globohomo’s in DC and the New York Times be the first to taste the sweet nectar of atomic radioactive waste. They deserve everything that’s coming. /spit
Maybe we can get Russia to cooperate with us and convince them that they should not go nuclear. Oh wait…
NATO expansion right up to the Russian border sure is paying off.
So they can just build a nuke and it’ll work eh? Just like that? No testing of any kind? How will it be delivered? GMAFB.
More warmongering from the neocon deep state cabal. Just an endless supply of excuses to attack other countries.
That’s not how it works.
Jeez…one novel, twenty years ago, and everyone jumps on the EMP wagon.
Computer modeling has come a long way since 1944.
Also, Iran puts satellites up. So, delivery isn’t so much of an issue as you suggest.
Iran is not a bunch of backward dirt farmers.
True, they’re mostly sheep herders.
I can’t believe after over 30 years that the Iranians are still struggling with uranium 235 enrichment. Why didn’t they go with creating plutonium 239 in reactors, via reprocessing of spent fuel?
They actually have 5 nukes already. With low but increasing sophistication.
Too late for that. Time for the Sampson option:
And the sheep are annoyed.
Kahl was one of the promoters of the 2015 nuclear deal under Obama.
Ping.
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