# OK, How Much Bomb-Grade Enriched Uranium Does Iran Have?

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**Category:** In My Humble Opinion\
**Created:** [June 12, 2013, 12:30am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/ok-how-much-bomb-grade-enriched-uranium-does-iran-have/660769 "2013-06-12T00:30:54Z")\
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**Author:** ![ralph124c](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/r/8797f3/32.png) [@ralph124c](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/ralph124c)\
**Post date:** [June 12, 2013, 12:30am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/ok-how-much-bomb-grade-enriched-uranium-does-iran-have/660769/1 "2013-06-12T00:30:54Z")

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I am puzzled-despite all the gloom and doom rhetoric (from the USA and Israel), I have yet to read anything that says how much enriched uranium Iran actually has. I know that the Iranians have built centrifuges (and many were destroyed by a software virus); but what actually have the Iranians done with the stuff? They have openly declared that their enrichment program is to make fuel for reactors-is this true? If the objective is to build bombs, why wold the Iranians say anything? If they want to keep everyone guessing, why not say nothing?

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**Author:** ![Senegoid](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/senegoid/32/6606_2.png) [@Senegoid](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Senegoid)\
**Post date:** [June 12, 2013, 8:22am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/ok-how-much-bomb-grade-enriched-uranium-does-iran-have/660769/2 "2013-06-12T08:22:09Z")

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And while we’re on this subject: How much damage did Stuxnet actually do? Does anybody (outside Iran) know? I was under the impression that they caught it before much harm was done? Amirong?

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**Author:** ![blindboyard](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/blindboyard/32/2833_2.png) [@blindboyard](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/blindboyard)\
**Post date:** [June 13, 2013, 3:11pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/ok-how-much-bomb-grade-enriched-uranium-does-iran-have/660769/3 "2013-06-13T15:11:39Z")

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This all depends on whether you believe the American government, the Iranian government or neither.