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The nation's top military officer said Sunday that Iran has enough nuclear material to make a bomb, but Defense Secretary Robert M. Gates said Tehran was not close to building such a weapon.

Navy Adm. Michael G. Mullen, chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff, told CNN's "State of the Union" program that he believed Iran had enough fissile material for a nuclear weapon.

"They are not close to a stockpile, they are not close to a weapon at this point," Gates said. "So there is some time." Mullen commented in response to a question about a recent report by the U.N.'s nuclear monitoring body, the International Atomic Energy Agency. The agency found that Iran had built up its supplies of enriched uranium to slightly more than a ton, about 33% more than Tehran had previously stated it had stockpiled. Some experts say it takes about a ton of enriched uranium to make a nuclear bomb.

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So, do you think Iran is a nuclear threat?

I consider Iran a "nuclear threat" on the same level as North Korea. If I were to rate Iran on a nuclear threat scale from 1 - 10, I would give them a 5. My reasons are because they are ballsy, and only want attention and try and have leverage but at the same time they do not have the guts to launch one at a nearby country. If they did, they would be wiped out in a heartbeat by the US then strong tensions would arise between the US and Russia, but not enough to call a war on. We do need to watch them very carefully though, and start tracking their every move because they are going to build a bomb whether we like it or not. What we need to do is either A) Strike now, B) Wait and then strike when they have pissed the rest of the world off, or C) Make damn sure that whatever they build never, ever leaves Iran.

Do you think that what they may build would be a bomb/warhead in the typical sense or a "backpack bomb" or "dirty bomb"? The tactics to stop it are different depending on the type.

Maximus the Destroyer wrote:Do you think that what they may build would be a bomb/warhead in the typical sense or a "backpack bomb" or "dirty bomb"? The tactics to stop it are different depending on the type.

I would definitely see them building one that we could see, clear as day and they would prod-cast on TV for the whole world to view their power. And just like Pakistan, when they would go to test it, they would prod-cast it as well.

However, they would probably build a dirty bomb...cause they're dirty little shits. But, what's there really to be worried about? How many dirty bombs are floating around out there in the world? A couple hundred maybe? I don't know...

Terrorists do not yet have the nerve to set one off. If they do, it will be tracked down very shortly (I hope) and whatever country it came from would be dealt with somehow, hopefully not violently but dealt with in a sense that the criminal minds involved are executed on site. Now I know Hollywood never does a good job at anything, but watch the SUM OF ALL FEARS if you really want a good idea of how thing's could turn out, but not turn out where two super-powers would be doing the "Dance of Death".