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Chris Wright: “Frighteningly close. Yeah, they are weeks, a small number of…”

Featuring: Chris Wright, Republican | Secretary of Energy | National

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How close does that degree of enrichment enable Iranians to develop a nuclear weapon? What amount of time would it take to do it? Frighteningly close. Yeah, they are weeks, a small number of weeks away to enrich that to weapons grade uranium. There's still a weaponization process that happens after that, but they're quite close to constructing new. Is that they are weeks away on that one ton of enriched uranium to get it to enrich it to weapons grade uranium. (04:10–04:19)

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Asserts that Iran is weeks away from enriching uranium to weapons grade.

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