What If Iran Already Has The A-Bomb? -- A Commentary

What If Iran Already Has The Bomb? -- Rep. Roscoe G. Bartlett and Peter Vincent Pry - The Washington Times

Better to be prepared than surprised.

In June, Defense Secretary Robert M. Gates reassured America that there was still time for sanctions to compel Iran to abandon pursuit of an "Islamic bomb." U.S. policy toward Iran is founded on the assessment, unquestioned by anyone in the press, that Iran does not yet have nuclear weapons.

Yet there are good reasons for questioning this premise, so fundamental to our policy, that Iran is still a nonnuclear-weapons state.

That Iran has not conducted a nuclear test is no guarantee it does not have the bomb. The United States did not test the A-bomb that destroyed Hiroshima. The U.S. Trinity atomic test was of a more complex bomb design, which was used to destroy Nagasaki. The U.S. maintains its sophisticated thermonuclear deterrent without testing. Our own experience proves that Iran need not conduct a nuclear test in order to have nuclear weapons.

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My Comment: I am skeptical of those who believe that countries like Iran are capable of an EMP attack, but as for the rest of this commentary .... there are some good points on why we should be sensitive to Iran's nuclear ambitions and to what is their present state of development.