Iran can likely build several atomic bombs with its current stockpiles of enriched uranium, the head of the United Nations’ nuclear agency said Thursday.
“They have enough material for several nuclear warheads,” the director general of the International Atomic Energy Agency, Rafael Mariano Grossi, told Bloomberg News Thursday during an interview in Davos, Switzerland.
Iran appears to be storing the enriched uranium, not making it into warheads, Grossi said, while adding that the stockpiling was “not banal.”
Iran is speeding up its uranium enrichment process, and its domestic nuclear industry is now fully independent, even as the country continues to stymie international efforts to monitor its nuclear program.
A concern with nuclear proliferation is the small nation states might make nukes and give them to others to use. As an example, Iran is arming Houthis in Yemen as well as other groups. If Houthis detonated a nuke on a target, it would take some time to determine where the nuke came from, and in the days and weeks following would Iran then be nuked?
Probably not. Just conventionally bombed Dresden style.