The bit about Iran getting a bomb in 16 days is pretty much a gross exaggeration.
But with this administration, I suppose that goes without saying.
Iran is thought to have about 164 centrifuges in use right now. That same State Department official, down near the bottom of the Bloomberg story, notes “it would take a little over 13 years [emphasis added] to produce enough highly enriched uranium for a nuclear weapon” with so few centrifuges.
And the U.S. intelligence community’s best and most recent estimate is that, why yes, Iran might be able to build a nuclear weapon — in five to 10 years.
But as with Iraq, why should facts get in the way of scare-mongering?
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The SAME article:
Iran has informed the Vienna-based International Atomic Energy Agency that it plans to construct 3,000 centrifuges at Natanz next year, Rademaker said.
"We calculate that a 3,000-machine cascade could produce enough uranium to build a nuclear weapon within 271 days[emphasis added]," he said.
In fact, Iran will move forward to ``industrial scale'' uranium enrichment involving 54,000 centrifuges at Natanz, the Associated Press quoted deputy nuclear chief Mohammad Saeedi as telling state-run television today.
One wonders how these paragraphs did not garner mention in respect to this article?
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