(Times of Israel) Mitch Ginsburg - Prof. Uzi Even, who helped build Israel's nuclear reactor in Dimona, said this week that in dealing with Iran, "The first thing is that all work must stop on the plutonium reactor in Arak. It cannot be allowed to become operable." The reactor in Arak, from the moment it begins working properly, would take one year to create enough plutonium for a bomb. On the other hand, a uranium-based bomb is difficult to miniaturize, Even said last year. The one dropped on Hiroshima weighed six tons. The Shahab-3, Iran's top inter-continental ballistic missile, can only carry a one-ton payload. Even also said last year he believed the Iranian regime had already covertly created the 20-25 kilograms of highly enriched uranium necessary to conduct a successful underground test. He suggested it either had to be removed or rendered inoperable for a bomb.
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