Under the agreement
reached in Geneva over the weekend, Iran is permitted to keep one-half of the
uranium it has enriched to the 20% level, and is required to dilute the
remaining one-half to 5% U-235. It is allowed to continue enriching uranium,
but agrees not to take that process beyond 5% U-235 during the next six months.
No doubt many people who hear about those terms will be reassured, thinking
that 5% enrichment, and even 20%, represents only a small percentage of the
total effort needed to create the materials for a nuclear bomb. Unfortunately,
this is not the case.
A reader points out this
valuable September 2012 report by
the American Enterprise Institute, and comments:…To Read More…..
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