White House says Iran could produce a nuclear weapon in 'a couple of weeks'

[NNadir]

39. Spoken by a habitual liar to a credulous public.

I think I could design a workable nuclear weapon in a couple of weeks. I think a really good undergraduate in a good school should be capable of so doing.

The issue is not design, it's materials and cost.

It took tens of thousands of people several years to acquire enough fissionable material of sufficient isotopic composition to make the first nuclear weapon. It took decades upon decades, and hundreds of billions of dollars to make large nuclear arsenals.

Unfortunately, our public has been trained to treat the word "nuclear" as a trigger word to commit huge acts of violence. (I consider the attacks on commercial nuclear power an act of violence, since these attacks kill people by allowing the rising use of fossil fuels.)

This of course not new. Hundreds of thousands of Iraqi human beings were killed by the dishonest use of the trigger word about 20 years ago.

The US will soon be irrelevant having committed suicide by embracing ignorance as being "great." This said one would hope that in its national death throes it does not go out in another blaze of death.