I also liked this video on the difficulty of making atomic weapons, detailing the exhausting process of turning uranium into weapons grade plutonium, going back to the history of making the U.S.'s first nukes in 1945, and the resources and manpower it took.




Like the military officer in my 9/27/2012 youtube post above, I view with some skepticism the alarmists that Iran is one year away from having material for nukes. But when Iran has gone from 600 up to 13,000 centrifuges during Obama's presidency, you have to think that maybe they're getting close.

Regardless, it's amazing that 70 years after the first nuclear weapons were created, with the new technology now available since then, nations still have difficulty getting together the resources to make weapons-grade nuclear material. As I understand it, every country on earth knows the mechanics of creating nuclear weapons. The only obstacle, for any nation, is getting together the physical materials to actually do it.