Non-States Continue To Arm With Strategic Weapons -- Ares/Aviation Week
Israeli leadership faces the problem of weighing rapidly shifting threats and establishing a set of priorities for how to deal with the most pressing demands.
“Priority one is a nuclear Iran,” says a senior planner for the Israel Defense Force (IDF). “If they continue at the current rate, in three years they will be very close [to having a nuclear weapon].”
Israeli calculations are that Iran has 2,400 kg of low-enriched uranium. LEU has less than a 20% concentration of U235. If they build a stockpile of 4,000 to 5,000 kg, they are considered as having moved into the weapons threshold. Iran’s operation of 3,000 centrifuges was considered as crossing a “pink line.” Having enough enriched uranium for a bomb is considered a red line. Iran’s possession of a bomb will create a nuclear umbrella for Syria, Hezbollah and Hamas, analysts contend.
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My Comment: Bottom line .... everyone in the region is preparing for the next war.