You know, all of these stories that “Iran could have a nuke in a couple months” are constantly decried as “fear mongering“. I mean, we know that Iran has all of the specific weapons research done for them since Pakistan put the hard data on the market, to say nothing of the public domain information already out there, as well as most of the precursor materials and technology required. We also know that the US managed to build a bomb from scratch, quite quickly, without computers or most of the technology we have today in a few years during WWII…
Now, I'm not saying I believe Iran is building a nuclear bomb (although they easily could be it would still surprise me), but it's incredibly insulting to Iranians to suggest that they're incapable of doing it quite quickly given what they already have… If they have the money to throw at the project (money and resources is the main reason that the US beat the USSR, Germany, and Canada/Britain to the bomb), I'm sure they could do it.
The bigger question to me is their delivery systems… Personally I'm pretty dubious that they could even build a missile that could hit Europe let alone America. A low tech delivery (passenger jet) is much more likely though… No reason why you can't use a 747 as a bomber.
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