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Think Tank: Iran Could Make Nuclear Weapon in Two Years
(Reuters) Adrian Croft and Peter Apps - Iran could make a nuclear weapon in two years if it wished, the London-based International Institute for Strategic Studies (IISS) said in a report Thursday. The report said Iran's current stockpile of low-enriched uranium (LEU) would, if further enriched, be enough for one or two nuclear weapons. If the 4,000 centrifuges working at Iran's Natanz enrichment plant were used for weapons purposes, and they continued to perform at their maximum output to date, "a little over a year and seven months would be required for the first bomb's worth of HEU (highly enriched uranium)," it said. At least six more months would be required to convert the HEU from gas form into metal and fashion it into a weapon, the report said.