In this episode of Iran Watch Listen, Wisconsin Project Executive Director Valerie Lincy and Senior Research Associate John Caves sat down with Wisconsin Project Senior Fellow John Lauder to think through the new realities after the bombing of Iran’s nuclear program and the return of U.N. sanctions.
How quickly might Iran enrich enough uranium for a small nuclear arsenal in the aftermath of the Israeli and U.S. strikes? This analysis considers scenarios involving various sizes of secret sites and differing levels of usable enriched uranium stockpiles.
Weapon Program Background Report
The international community has long raised concerns about the dual-use potential of Iran's nuclear infrastructure, which could be used to make fuel for reactors or weapons. Israel and the United States acted on those concerns, carrying out airstrikes that caused serious damage to a number of Iranian nuclear facilities.
On June 21, the United States struck three nuclear sites in Iran in an operation designed to “severely degrade Iran’s nuclear weapons infrastructure,” according to General Dan Cain, the Chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff. It is still too early to know how much damage was actually inflicted.