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Assessing Iran's Nuclear Capabilities
Iran is two to eight years away from being able to assemble a military nuclear explosive, according to two nuclear energy experts speaking at briefings sponsored by AAAS. Speaking at the Rayburn House Office Building and later at AAAS headquarters, James Acton of King's College London and Jeffrey Lewis of the New America Foundation evaluated Iran's potential to build a nuclear weapon and discussed the effectiveness of international efforts to rein in its bomb-building ambitions. The briefings were sponsored by the AAAS's Center for Science, Technology and Security Policy.
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By AAAS, USA.
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Technology Policy Resource.
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| Matthew Bunn: U.S. Must Press Efforts to Improve Security of Nuke Materials Some 25,000 nuclear weapons lie in the arsenals of at least nine countries, but the highest-probability danger the world faces is not a full-scale war. It is, rather, that a small group of terrorists could grab just enough highly enriched uranium from a poorly guarded site and assemble a crude device that could nevertheless devastate a city. The U.S. Congress and the administration of President George W. Bush must pay greater attention to this threat, nuclear security expert Matthew Bunn said at a AAAS briefing on Capitol Hill. |
By AAAS, USA.
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Science and Technology Policy Resource.
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