US strikes likely have made Iran incapable of making nuclear weapons in a ‘dash effort'
FDD's Nonproliferation and Biodefense Program Deputy Director Andrea Stricker discusses how far the US strikes on Iranian nuclear facilities have set the country's atomic weapons program back.
'The nuclear program has likely been set back many months if not years, we have seen damage to the uranium conversion step, the enrichment and the processing of turning into atomic weapons metal,' Ms Stricker told Sky News Australia.
'Even if Iran wanted to make a nuclear weapon in a dash effort, it likely doesn't have the people or capability to do so.'
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