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What does "unauthorized" mean here? Who needs to authorize weapons-grade uranium enrichment? The GBU-57 is dope. Really curious to see how well it worked here

tptacek 1y ago
It's literally an anvil they drop out of the sky hoping to punch through structures like an aerial drilling platform. I guess it's dope, but it seems like cartoon armament to me.
- trhway 1y ago
  > I guess it's dope, but it seems like cartoon armament to me. The first bunker-buster : https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Disney_bomb https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Disney_bomb "According to an anecdote, the idea arose after a group of Royal Navy officers saw a similar, but fictional, bomb depicted in the 1943 Walt Disney animated propaganda film Victory Through Air Power,[Note 10] and the name Disney was consequently given to the weapon."
nradov 1y ago
Unauthorized in the sense of a violation of the Non-Proliferation Treaty, to which Iran is a signatory. Whether Iran is actually violating the treaty is a matter of some dispute. https://disarmament.unoda.org/wmd/nuclear/npt/ https://disarmament.unoda.org/wmd/nuclear/npt/
- tguvot 1y ago
  it's declared to be in violation https://www.reuters.com/world/china/iaea-board-declares-iran-breach-non-proliferation-duties-diplomats-say-2025-06-12/ https://www.reuters.com/world/china/iaea-board-declares-iran...
cwmoore 1y ago
Curious too. I can’t even imagine driving a 16ton nail through hundreds of feet of hard rock and reinforced concrete.
- missedthecue 1y ago
  Not physically possible. You can get through hundreds of feet of loosely compacted soil and gravel but high performance concrete? 8-15m max. If they built the facility out of 30,000psi concrete, they'd be lucky to pen 4 meters with a direct hit, nevermind the 80m of limestone above it.

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What does "unauthorized" mean here? Who needs to authorize weapons-grade uranium enrichment? The GBU-57 is dope. Really curious to see how well it worked here

by arandomusername 1y ago

tptacek 1y ago
It's literally an anvil they drop out of the sky hoping to punch through structures like an aerial drilling platform. I guess it's dope, but it seems like cartoon armament to me.
- trhway 1y ago
  > I guess it's dope, but it seems like cartoon armament to me. The first bunker-buster : https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Disney_bomb https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Disney_bomb "According to an anecdote, the idea arose after a group of Royal Navy officers saw a similar, but fictional, bomb depicted in the 1943 Walt Disney animated propaganda film Victory Through Air Power,[Note 10] and the name Disney was consequently given to the weapon."
nradov 1y ago
Unauthorized in the sense of a violation of the Non-Proliferation Treaty, to which Iran is a signatory. Whether Iran is actually violating the treaty is a matter of some dispute. https://disarmament.unoda.org/wmd/nuclear/npt/ https://disarmament.unoda.org/wmd/nuclear/npt/
- tguvot 1y ago
  it's declared to be in violation https://www.reuters.com/world/china/iaea-board-declares-iran-breach-non-proliferation-duties-diplomats-say-2025-06-12/ https://www.reuters.com/world/china/iaea-board-declares-iran...
cwmoore 1y ago
Curious too. I can’t even imagine driving a 16ton nail through hundreds of feet of hard rock and reinforced concrete.
- missedthecue 1y ago
  Not physically possible. You can get through hundreds of feet of loosely compacted soil and gravel but high performance concrete? 8-15m max. If they built the facility out of 30,000psi concrete, they'd be lucky to pen 4 meters with a direct hit, nevermind the 80m of limestone above it.