Vice President for Foreign and Defense Policy at the American Enterprise Institute Danielle Pletka said Iran currently has the capacity to build a "dirty" nuclear bomb Wednesday in a House Foreign Affairs committee hearing.
Iran could produce a "rudimentary" bomb that could be delivered in the back of a truck or a bus in a month, Pletka said. A more complex miniaturized weapon with a delivery device, according to Pletka, could take the regime approximately one year to manufacture:
MO BROOKS: When will they have a usable nuclear weapon? So how much time in your best judgement?
MIKE DUBOWITZ: Well the open reporting that I’ve seen is 2014/2015.
BROOKS: Ms. Pletka?
DANIELLE PLETKA: I think the problem that we’re going to face answering your question is what you mean by a ‘usable nuclear weapon.’ If you mean a dirty bomb, they could do it today. If you mean a rudimentary nuclear device that can be delivered in the back of a truck or a bus, a month. If you mean a weapon miniaturized on a delivery vehicle that works successfully, longer; probably a year, maybe even longer than that.
