Friday, February 20, 2009

Iran Holds Enough Uranium For Bomb-Netanyahu: Iran Will Not Be Armed With A Nuclear Weapon


What happens next with Iran now having enough uranium for a bomb, and Netanyahu, who has been tasked with forming the new government of Israel and has vowed Iran will not be armed with a nuclear weapon remains to be seen.
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Iran has built up a stockpile of enough enriched uranium for one nuclear bomb, United Nations officials acknowledged on Thursday.
In a development that comes as the Obama administration is drawing up its policy on negotiations with Tehran over its nuclear programme, UN officials said Iran had produced more nuclear material than previously thought.

They said Iran had accumulated more than one tonne of low enriched uranium hexafluoride at a facility in Natanz.

If such a quantity were further enriched it could produce more than 20kg of fissile material – enough for a bomb. More


Tags: Iran, Nuclear Weapon, Uranium, Netanyahu

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