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Questions for the Authors of the National Intelligence Estimate
[Boston Globe] Ephraim Sneh - Two main ingredients are required for a nuclear bomb: fissile material and a special explosion device. The production of the fissile material requires large, easily detectable industrial facilities like the one in Natanz. To develop and produce the weapon device, however, only a small plant is enough, whose size and contours are similar to any innocent laboratory. Can the authors of the U.S. National Intelligence Estimate on Iran say with confidence that such a laboratory does not exist anywhere in Iran? The writer, a retired Israeli general and a former deputy minister of defense, is a member of the Israeli Knesset's subcommittee on intelligence.