60%, not 80, and they hardly have the parts to make a puny firecracker.
They've been working on this since the 1990s. The big question is not how soon, but what's taking them so long?
There was a big noise ruckus here back in the late 1980s because some high school kid did a book report with the schematics for making an actual nuclear bomb. All that was missing was the material, the design checked out to be totally workable.
He said he did the paper to make a point. Where did he get the information? In the public library. A school kid found out exactly how to design a nuclear bomb. From the public library. In the 1980s.
Granted, Iran is a Mickey Mouse joint, but what is taking up so long?
It took the US 3 years to develop the atomic bomb. 3 years. From scratch. Nobody ever did it before. They took some numbers that Einstein scribbled, and that's all they have to go on. Numbers. Written on a piece of paper. And the Manhattan Project developed a bomb from that. In 3 years.
In 3 decades, with information and parts supplied by Pakistan and North Korea, on a scale from Molotov cocktail to nuclear bomb, Iran is barely clocking a 3.5