2007-10-23 01:51:23 · 11 answers · asked by Anonymous in Politics & Government ➔ Politics
They have constructed a huge battery of centrifuges for the separation of Uranium isotopes.
The enrched Uranium can be used in Power Plants and or to make nuclear weaopns.
The Iranians are saying that the enriched Uranium is for peaceful purposes. One would have to assume it's for the generation of electric power, no?
One detail of note. The Iranians don't have any nuclear power plants and have no plans to build one. The French offered to give them a light water reactor but the Iranians said, 'no thanks'.
So, I ask you, what will they do with the enriched uranium?
2007-10-23 01:59:40 · answer #1 · answered by Anonymous · 1⤊ 0⤋
Don't you think that is a rather simplistic view of a complex situation?
It's sort of like saying, "Why worry about that child with a bucket of gasoline and a lighter, he hasn't blown himself up yet" (because he hasn't figured out the safety on the lighter yet).
If Iran had nuclear weapons for 5 decades and never once used them, then maybe your question would have some validity, but you can't ask why they haven't used them before they've completed the program.
2007-10-23 09:03:35 · answer #2 · answered by dsr 2 · 0⤊ 0⤋
The program is an effort to create a nuclear weapon. They haven't finished it yet. The actual technology is guarded and the material required has to be created by refining Uranium (I think that is the element they use). So, it isn't easy to do. At this point, the US thinks that the Iranians know how to create the weapon and they have created a facility to refine the Uranium. The Iranians claim that the refinery is to make Uranium for a nuclear power plant.
So, Iran hasn't used its Nuke program because it isn't at the stage where there is anything to use.
2007-10-23 08:58:59 · answer #3 · answered by J B 3 · 0⤊ 1⤋
It is the possibility of them having a nuke that is dangerous. They don't have one yet. I don't agree with invading Iran (I've seen that play out before) but the leaders over there are crazy and I don't doubt that they would want to nuke Israel.
2007-10-23 09:01:21 · answer #4 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋
So, if you know someone's building a pipe bomb to take to school and they don't have all the parts yet do you then assume it's not dangerous? Just curious.
I don't know how accurate our information is on Iran's nuclear program, but ask yourself this: why do they need a nuclear program? They're sitting on enough oil to power themselves forever, and don't have a major environmentalist movement to make drilling and burning oil a problem.
It may be just speculation, but common sense tells us that someone who has vowed to wipe Israel off the face of the earth might just be trying to develop the means to do so.
2007-10-23 09:18:31 · answer #5 · answered by ima_super_geek 4 · 0⤊ 0⤋
They are using it now. They are using their nuke program to convert nuclear fuel from what a power reactor requires to weapons grade plutonium. Once they succeed in accumulating enough weapons grade plutonium they will build nuclear weapons.
OK?
2007-10-23 08:59:33 · answer #6 · answered by Jacob W 7 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Last I heard, it will be 5 or more years before they have a bomb, if that is what they want.
Even when they have one, they will use it for defense, to retaliate against an attack. What they really want it for is to prevent an attack.
2007-10-23 08:55:46 · answer #7 · answered by sudonym x 6 · 2⤊ 0⤋
It's not finished yet. That's what all the hoopla is about. To make sure they don't finish it and you're scenario doesn't come true.
2007-10-23 09:02:19 · answer #8 · answered by time_wounds_all_heelz 5 · 0⤊ 0⤋
I don't believe they've built a bomb yet. The whole point is to hopefully prevent that from happening..........
2007-10-23 08:54:45 · answer #9 · answered by Brian 7 · 3⤊ 1⤋
They're developing it now. Do you have to see a mushroom cloud over Manhattan before you realize what they're up to?
2007-10-23 08:54:19 · answer #10 · answered by Anonymous · 4⤊ 2⤋