Iran Has Enough Uranium for 10 Nuclear Weapons + Other Headlines

Atomic Agency: Iran Has Enough for 10 Nukes

Despite talks between the Trump administration and Iran on a new nuclear deal, the United Nations atomic agency announced over the weekend that Iran is continuing to produce highly enriched uranium—at a pace of “roughly one nuclear weapon’s worth a month” over the past three months. The Wall Street Journal has the report:

Iran has enough highly enriched uranium for roughly 10 nuclear weapons, based on IAEA measures of the minimum fissile material required, up from at least six at the time of the last report.

U.S. officials say it could take Iran less than two weeks to convert this highly enriched uranium into enough weapons-grade 90 percent fissile material for a nuclear weapon.

That comes from the UN’s International Atomic Energy Agency. But it’s not the only information-gathering agency that issued a starling report in recent days.