WASHINGTON — The United States now believes that Iran has amassed enough fissile material to build an atomic bomb, the chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff declared Sunday.
That statement by the chairman, Adm. Mike Mullen, went further than previous, official judgments of the Iranian nuclear threat, and essentially confirmed a new report by the United Nations nuclear watchdog agency, which found that Iran had enough nuclear material for a bomb.
“We think they do, quite frankly,” Admiral Mullen said on CNN’s “State of the Union.” “And Iran having a nuclear weapon, I’ve believed for a long time, is a very, very bad outcome for the region and for the world.”
The International Atomic Energy Agency reported on Feb. 19 that its inspectors had found that Iran had understated by a third how much uranium it had enriched.
In its study, the agency declared for the first time that the amount of low-enriched uranium that Tehran had stockpiled, estimated at more than a ton, was sufficient to make an atomic bomb, but only with added purification.
Added purification would take the low enriched uranium and it would become highly enriched uranium. (HEU) Add to this the rumors of a North Korean HEU program in addition to their plutonium program, the release of serial proliferator A.Q. Khan and you have an international disaster waiting to happen. Of course with Climate Change as the top foreign policy agenda the Obama admin has essentialy abdicated any serious attempt to block nuclear proliferation. And who are the Democrats counting on slowing down the Iranian program, why the serial killer of journalists, Putin and the freindly Russians:
For example, a view is emerging within the administration of a possible way to link a compromise on missile defense with Russia to diplomatic progress halting Iran’s nuclear program.
The United States says its planned missile defense sites in Poland and the Czech Republic are needed against a potential Iranian nuclear attack, while Russia vehemently complains that those systems are designed to thwart the Russian arsenal.
Administration officials may propose that if Russia wants the United States to rethink its plans for building two missile defense sites in Europe, then the Kremlin must do more to help halt Iran’s nuclear weapons program.
Sell out our East European allies in exchange for promised Russian support. Dishonorable and stupid all rolled into one.
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