Iran Has Another Path To The Bomb. Trump Needs To Close It Off.

Iran Has Another Path To The Bomb centers on concerns that U.S. engagement after the Trump administration’s Iran deal still leaves a major nuclear route insufficiently addressed. The article argues that Washington has focused mainly on uranium enrichment, while underestimating plutonium reprocessing, a second and potent pathway Iran can pursue. It points to the Bushehr nuclear power plant, built with help from Russia’s Rosatom in the mid-1990s and later transferred to Iran, as a key enabler because decades of operation have produced spent fuel. Nuclear expert Henry Sokolski estimates Iran “probably has roughly 2,100 kilograms” of weapons-usable plutonium at Bushehr, enough for more than 200 bombs. The piece contrasts this with uranium stockpile losses, citing U.S. and Israeli strikes last year that damaged dispersed facilities.