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Iran's Enriched Uranium Supply Is Growing
[Newsweek ] Michael Hirsh - Israelis, to whom Iran's nuclear program represents a threat to their existence, are coming to believe that the time for patient diplomacy is running out. According to David Albright, one of the most-heeded technical authorities on Iran's program, the Iranians are producing 1.2 kilograms of enriched uranium a day on average, which would give them enough for a bomb by late 2009. (In more technical terms, that means they would have enough low-enriched uranium - about 700 kilograms - to enrich up to the 20 to 25 kilograms of weapons-grade needed for a crude fission bomb by then.)