Iran and the bomb
For a more reasonable and informative take on what Iran is up to, look at the article by David Albrights, “When Could Iran get the Bomb? What we know and what we don’t know about Iran’s nuclear program.”
The first clue that we might learn something is that this is in the Bulletin of the Atomic Scientists July 2006 and our second clue is that the author is president of the Institute for Science and International Security. In other words, an article written by a scientist for scientists.
What does he say? Iran, in his judgment, is doing things that imply it wants at least to preserve the option of making a fast push to build a weapon and that it will take them a minimum of three years to do so, and likely much more.
He also flatly accuses US government sources of flat out lying about what the IAEA actually found to hype the fear of a real danger to the world. Himm, have we heard this before?
He recommends diplomacy, but also sanctions on Iran’s acquisition of duel use items.