Iranian enrichment is worrying, but weapons-grade uranium doesn't a bomb make
Judah Ari Gross is The Times of Israel's military correspondent. Centrifuge machines in the Natanz uranium enrichment facility in central Iran, November 5, 2019. (Atomic Energy Organization of Iran via AP) Iran’s enrichment of uranium to 60 percent represents is not only the latest in a series of escalating violations of the 2015 nuclear accord, but the closest the Islamic Republic has ever come to producing weapons-grade fissile material. For countries that oppose a nuclear Iran, it is a worrying development, bringing Tehran one step closer to a bomb. But it is also just one step, and not ...