Iran Poised to Make 20 Nuclear Weapons A Year
IAEA awakens to Iran operating at least 7,000 gas-centrifuges, with a capacity to produce twenty nuclear weapons per year.
IAEA (International Atomic Energy Administration) officials said that over the next few months, Iran would be operating at least 7,000 centrifuges, with a capacity to produce twenty nuclear weapons per year. “There are currently close to 4,000 centrifuges active at Natanz enrichment facility,” Iranian Deputy Foreign Minister Alireza Sheik Attar said. “Another 3,000 centrifuges are being installed.”
The operation of 4,000 centrifuges marks a watershed for Iran’s nuclear program, and comprises an industrial-scale program that could produce enough enriched uranium for more than one nuclear weapon per month.
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Comment by Mad Scientist on 7 September 2008:
On September 3, 2008 the UK Guardian, published the story of two plucky youngsters who in 1966 built their own homebrew A-bomb. They didn’t actually build the thing but provided detailed plans that a competent machine shop could make a fission bomb that would explode if you have sufficient U235 – about 40 kilograms, 44 pounds.
A low-technology bomb in the 10- to 20-kiloton range would require only about 10 kilograms of highly enriched uranium. A research team at the University of California (Santa Cruz) found that three kilograms to be sufficient to produce a simple fission weapon design, they found a nuclear yield equivalent to more than 100 tons of high explosives could be achieved with only one kilogram of HEU and “a yield half that of the Hiroshima bomb” with just five kilograms.
Most knowledgeable people believe Iran has assembled the machinery needed for a nuclear bomb, and is simply awaiting or perhaps has already build a bomb.
Israel’s attack on Iran A-bomb factories could be imminent although the recent Russia attack on Georgia may have delayed it because its airfields may have been used to base its attack, and they have been heavily damaged.