The 12 days that turned back the clock on Iran's nuclear program
'Iran is no longer a threshold nuclear state,' one well-informed Israeli source told me. He said that Iran would now require at least one to two years to build a deliverable nuclear weapon, assuming it could somehow hide its activities. Tehran could conceivably try to demonstrate a crude nuclear device more quickly. But Israel would probably see the test coming and could mount a disabling attack, the source said.
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Hamas Releases Video of Israeli Hostage Evyatar David
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Trump says ‘we just have to be careful' as he moves nuclear subs closer to Russia
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