12 hours ago
- Politics
- Wall Street Journal
Iran Is Down, but Not Yet Out
As Israel's mission to destroy Iran's nuclear capacity continues, a grave and obvious question confronts us: How did the West, the U.S. in particular, allow Tehran's nuclear threat to grow unchecked for so long?
David Albright, an American physicist and nuclear-weapons tracker, is among the world's foremost experts on Iran's nuclear program. He's president of the Institute for Science and International Security, a nonprofit, nonpartisan institution that focuses on the spread of nuclear weapons to rogue nations and terrorists. On June 12, the day before the first Israeli attack, Iran could 'make enough weapon-grade uranium for 11 nuclear weapons within a month,' Mr. Albright says. Pre-attack Iran was on track to have enough highly enriched uranium for 22 weapons in five months.
