The Doomsday Clock Continues to Tick

The UN's International Atomic Energy Agency (IAEA) reports that Iran has 1,000 kilograms of low-enriched Uranium, enough to make one atomic bomb after further enrichment. The Chairman of the Joints Chiefs, Michael Mullen, also believes Iran has enough nuclear material to make a bomb.

Iran continues to make progress on multiple nuclear projects: adding centrifuges to enrich uranium, planning to begin operating its Russian-built nuclear "power" plant in April, and making further progress on its heavy water reactor.

Iran's continued progress toward the development of nuclear weapons represents the gravest risk of nuclear war in the world today (see previous columns here and here).

Let's hope Barack Obama, while making his diplomatic moves to engage Iran, is ready to destroy Iran's nuclear programs with an American military attack before it is too late.