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Iran Hasn’t Yet Decided To Build Bomb, But Obstacles To Going Atomic Disappear

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Monday, March 16th, 2009

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While Iran may not have made a political decision to build nuclear weapons, any obstacles to doing so are quickly disappearing, according to a paper from the Institute for Science and International Security (ISIS), a think tank in Washington. "Iran has not made the political decision to build a nuclear arsenal, though the technical and material impediments to developing a weapons capability are quickly falling away," the ISIS paper estimates. Israel views the Iranian threat with far greater concern, seeing…

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