[Wall Street Journal] Editorial - Iran now possesses 5,600 centrifuges in which it can enrich uranium - a 34-fold increase from 2006 - and plans to add 45,000 more over five years. That will give Tehran an ability to make atomic bombs on an industrial scale. In addition, Iran's new Russian-built reactor at Bushehr will eventually produce large quantities of spent fuel that can covertly be processed into weapons-usable plutonium. Furthermore, most proliferation experts agree that Iran's heavy water reactor in Arak, scheduled for completion in 2011, can have no purpose other than to produce weapons-grade plutonium.
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