by CKR
It can be found here, courtesy of David Albright's ISIS. The bottom line seems to be that they detected no sign that Iran is working on weapons, but Iran wasn't totally forthcoming either.
I'm giving a talk on Iran and North Korea tomorrow and have to spend some time in preparation. So here's news and commentary on the report from others:
"Iran 'three to eight years' away from nuclear weapon" is the Guardian headline. I've been wondering lately why it takes so long to build stuff in today's world. There are lots of possible reasons: limited funding, greater complexity, more bureaucratic requirements, eking out all the profit possible on defense contracts. The Iranians are hardly alone in these stretched-out timetables.
The United States, in World War II, developed an enormous production capability and two entirely different designs of nuclear weapons from scratch in 26 months. That kind of thing just doesn't seem to happen today, anywhere. Maybe that's a good thing. It's certainly fodder for another post.
Jeffrey Lewis (says we can expect more later)