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Panetta: U.S. Has a Year to Act If Iran Builds Bomb
(AFP) Dan De Luce - The U.S. would have about a year to take action if Iran decided to build a nuclear weapon, Defense Secretary Leon Panetta said Tuesday, despite urgent warnings from Israel that time is running out to prevent Tehran from getting the bomb. "We think we will have the opportunity once we know that they've made that decision, to take the action necessary to stop (the program)," he told "CBS This Morning." "We have pretty good intelligence on them. We know generally what they're up to. And so we keep a close track on them," said the former CIA director. "We have the forces in place to be able to not only defend ourselves, but to do what we have to do to try to stop them from developing nuclear weapons." David Albright, president of the Institute for Science and International Security and a leading expert on the issue, said it would take Iran 8 to 10 months to obtain a nuclear weapon once it decided to make the move.