they are likely making steady progress and may well be farther along than anyone outside realizes. After all, both India and Pakistan hid their atomic bomb programs so well that they surprised the world with them. Pakistan is next door to Iran and near half the Pakistani population shares the major Iranian religious flavor -- it would be unsurprising if atomic know how "leaded" across their border.
study prepared for the US Congress and updated last December suggests that by the time Iran partially froze its weapons development in 2003, it had not yet mastered all the skills necessary to build bombs — and that it probably did not make significant progress in later years.
According to Albright, some intelligence agencies estimate on the basis of this information that it could take the country about two years to make its first two bombs, if it wanted to do this.
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they are likely making steady progress and may well be farther along than anyone outside realizes. After all, both India and Pakistan hid their atomic bomb programs so well that they surprised the world with them. Pakistan is next door to Iran and near half the Pakistani population shares the major Iranian religious flavor -- it would be unsurprising if atomic know how "leaded" across their border.
study prepared for the US Congress and updated last December suggests that by the time Iran partially froze its weapons development in 2003, it had not yet mastered all the skills necessary to build bombs — and that it probably did not make significant progress in later years.
According to Albright, some intelligence agencies estimate on the basis of this information that it could take the country about two years to make its first two bombs, if it wanted to do this.
I suspect it will take a while since they can't seem to keep their nuclear scientists from getting assassinated.