Iran and the Bumb

It ain't that easy, most say that 50,000 centrifuges are necessary to really enrich uranium on a large scale. But centrifuge technology has improved...

A single centrifuge might produce about 30 grams of HEU per year, about the equivalent of five Separative Work Unit (SWU). As as a general rule of thumb, a cascade of 850 to 1,000 centrifuges, each 1.5 meters long, operating continuously at 400 m/sec, would be able to produce about 20-25 kilograms of HEU in a year, enough for one weapon. One such bomb would require about 6,000 SWU.

But this depends on NO problems, no breakdowns, and so on. However, they may have more centrifuges, OR they might get lucky. Oh, one thing more: it takes electricity to run centrifuges and electricity has to come from somewhere; one of us Satan loving bastards will blow up their electrical source. You can depend on it. Unless there is a Democratic president. And we all know in our hearts that there will be.