Syria Was Way Too Close to Nukes
Charles Johnson
Mon Apr 28, 2008 at 6:38 pm PDT • Views: 460
Come on, world. You can do it.
Say, “Thank you, Israel.”
Hayden: Syrian site could have produced fuel for 2 weapons.
WASHINGTON - CIA Director Michael Hayden said Monday that the alleged Syrian nuclear reactor destroyed by an Israeli airstrike in September would have produced enough plutonium for one or two bombs within a year of becoming operational.
U.S. intelligence and administration officials publicly disclosed last week their assessment that Syria was building a covert nuclear reactor with North Korean assistance. They said it was modeled on the shuttered North Korean reactor at Yongbyon, which produced a small amount of plutonium. The Syrian site, they said, was within weeks or months of being operational.
“In the course of a year after they got full up they would have produced enough plutonium for one or two weapons,” Hayden told reporters after a speech at Georgetown University.
Frank says: