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Iran has enough nuclear material to build a bomb, the United States’ most senior military commander has said. “We think they do, quite frankly,” ADM Mike Mullen, chairman of the US Joint Chiefs of Staff, told CNN. “And Iran having a nuclear weapon, I’ve believed for a long time, is a very, very bad outcome [...]
Iran has enough nuclear material to build a bomb, the United States’ most senior military commander has said. “We think they do, quite frankly,” ADM Mike Mullen, chairman of the US Joint Chiefs of Staff, told CNN. “And Iran having a nuclear weapon, I’ve believed for a long time, is a very, very bad outcome for the region and for the world,” he said. Iran says its nuclear programme is entirely peaceful, but the West suspects it is seeking nuclear weapons. ‘One bomb’ possible A report issued by the International Atomic Energy Agency (IAEA) two weeks ago said Tehran had built up a stockpile of fissile nuclear material.
Some physicists believe this stockpile is enough to be converted into enough highly enriched uranium to build one bomb. US Defence Secretary Robert Gates has adopted a cautious approach. “I think that there has been a continuing focus on how do you get the Iranians to walk away from a nuclear weapons programme? They’re not close to a stockpile. They’re not close to a weapon at this point,” he told NBC on Sunday. President Barack Obama has stated he wants to engage in diplomacy with Tehran to ensure it does not build nuclear weapons, and has described the country’s nuclear programme as an “urgent problem” the international community must confront.
I think that if Iran does happen to have nuclear weapons then America and other countries should try and reach some agreement with them so all countries with nuclear weapons can handle them safely and securely so that they can all continue to research nuclear technology and no-one innocent gets killed.
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Zac you must use the quotation button to show that you have copied some information. Well done for citing the information source.
I wonder if the solution to the whole nuclear problem is an simple as you suggest?