Can Iran Build a Nuclear Weapon Already? Another Reason to Support Missile Defense

Baker Spring / August 04, 2009

The Times of London reported yesterday (Aug. 3) that unnamed Western intelligence sources have concluded that Iran has perfected the technology to build and detonate a nuclear weapon. At a minimum, this confirmation would appear to repudiate a 2007 U.S. intelligence estimate that Iran had terminated its research program to acquire nuclear arms in 2003.

According to the sources of the Times, it would take just six months for Iran to assemble the weapon if the country’s Supreme Leader approved taking this step. Most alarming, the report states that the weapon could be delivered by Iran’s Shebab-3 ballistic missile. (more…)