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Of course they were near. Their mostly highly enriched uranium could have been further enriched to a crude bomb level within weeks. The question is not if they
by Rover222 1y ago
Of course they were near. Their mostly highly enriched uranium could have been further enriched to a crude bomb level within weeks. The question is not if they were near, but if they intended on crossing that line. Not something that Israel could just sit and wait for.
- croes 1y agoSource for that? Here it‘s less clear https://www.bbc.com/news/articles/cn840275p5yo https://www.bbc.com/news/articles/cn840275p5yo Sound more like Musk‘s „FSD is ready next year“
- dlubarov 1y agoMaybe they were far from implementing modern nuclear weapon designs, but there are simple applications like a https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gun-type_fission_weapon https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gun-type_fission_weapon delivered by ground. With that approach the bomb assembly is pretty straightforward engineering once they have sufficiently enriched uranium (which they already did the bulk of the work for).
- croes 1y agoSeems like they are near the bomb for the last 13 years https://youtu.be/3Q08a7BI9XI?si=hRszAlQVMOLjJCg7&t=428 https://youtu.be/3Q08a7BI9XI?si=hRszAlQVMOLjJCg7&t=428 How often can you cry wolf?
- dlubarov 1y agoRegardless of whether any past claims were misleading or what not, today noone disputes that Iran has a large stockpile of 60% enriched uranium, and is officially in breach of their NPT obligations per the IAEA board.