Iran, defying United Nations Security Council demands to halt its nuclear program, may be capable of making a nuclear bomb within 16 days, a U.S. State Department official said.
Iran will move to ``industrial scale'' uranium enrichment involving 54,000 centrifuges at its Natanz plant, the Associated Press quoted deputy nuclear chief Mohammad Saeedi as telling state-run television today.
This doesn't mean that 16 days from today Iran will have a nuclear arsenal, but it does mean that the estimates that Iran is years away from a nuclear weapon is likely wrong. It'll be here sooner than that.
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