Ernie Fitzpatrick asked:
The world has watched, waited, fretted, and jaw-boned for years now about preventing Iran from having nuclear capability. Nearly everyone hs said that it’s totally unacceptable. And? Is this something akin to the piracy that goes on off the coast of Somalia. Everyone is talking about it, but no one is doing anything to stop it. And now we learn that Iran just may have enough enriched uranium to have their first bomb. Is it Israeli time?
Iran has now produced roughly enough nuclear material to make, with added purification, a single atom bomb, according to nuclear experts analyzing the latest report from global atomic inspectors. The figures detailing Iran’s progress were contained in a routine update on Wednesday from the International Atomic Energy Agency, which has been conducting inspections of the country’s main nuclear plant at Natanz. The report concluded that as of early this month, Iran had made 630 kilograms, or about 1,390 pounds, of low-enriched uranium.
Now what Barack?
With Russia and China refusing to back further sanctions, all that remains diplomatically is for incoming President Barack Obama to try and use direct negotiations. Unless there is a miracle and the Russians and Chinese join in, there is little else that can be done diplomatically. For President-elect Barack Obama, the report underscores the magnitude of the problem that he will inherit Jan. 20: an Iranian nuclear program that has not only solved many technical problems of uranium enrichment, but that can also now credibly claim to possess enough material to make a weapon if negotiations with Europe and the United States break down.
American intelligence agencies have said Iran could make a bomb between 2009 and 2015. A national intelligence estimate made public late last year concluded that around the end of 2003, after long effort, Iran had halted work on an actual weapon. But enriching uranium, and obtaining enough material to build a weapon, is considered the most difficult part of the process.
So, if the world’s community can’t handle the pirates off the coast of Somalia, what do we think we can do with Iran?
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The world has watched, waited, fretted, and jaw-boned for years now about preventing Iran from having nuclear capability. Nearly everyone hs said that it’s totally unacceptable. And? Is this something akin to the piracy that goes on off the coast of Somalia. Everyone is talking about it, but no one is doing anything to stop it. And now we learn that Iran just may have enough enriched uranium to have their first bomb. Is it Israeli time?
Iran has now produced roughly enough nuclear material to make, with added purification, a single atom bomb, according to nuclear experts analyzing the latest report from global atomic inspectors. The figures detailing Iran’s progress were contained in a routine update on Wednesday from the International Atomic Energy Agency, which has been conducting inspections of the country’s main nuclear plant at Natanz. The report concluded that as of early this month, Iran had made 630 kilograms, or about 1,390 pounds, of low-enriched uranium.
Now what Barack?
With Russia and China refusing to back further sanctions, all that remains diplomatically is for incoming President Barack Obama to try and use direct negotiations. Unless there is a miracle and the Russians and Chinese join in, there is little else that can be done diplomatically. For President-elect Barack Obama, the report underscores the magnitude of the problem that he will inherit Jan. 20: an Iranian nuclear program that has not only solved many technical problems of uranium enrichment, but that can also now credibly claim to possess enough material to make a weapon if negotiations with Europe and the United States break down.
American intelligence agencies have said Iran could make a bomb between 2009 and 2015. A national intelligence estimate made public late last year concluded that around the end of 2003, after long effort, Iran had halted work on an actual weapon. But enriching uranium, and obtaining enough material to build a weapon, is considered the most difficult part of the process.
So, if the world’s community can’t handle the pirates off the coast of Somalia, what do we think we can do with Iran?
Create a video blog