I deal with nuclear engineering, so yes I know about the purposes and uses of enriched uranium
Well then it seems you are being disingenuous or lying. This podcast completely shreds this whole idea that Iran was developing a nuclear bomb as it is being presented and largely backs up what the former military officer in the Fox News op ed I posted had to say.
“they could have enriched up to 90-plus percent all along. They've enriched up to 60% as a bargaining chip to negotiate away. In order to try to get the sanctions lifted and try to get the United States back in the deal, it's the same thing they did in the Obama years.”
“And the only reason Obama even needed to do the deal in 2015 was because essentially the world led by Israel or the West led by Israel were essentially just pretending the NPT didn't exist, pretending that Iran didn't already have a safeguards agreement with the IAEA and the Israelis were threatening an aggressive war then.”
“Uranium bombs are virtually always a gun type nuke, like Fat Man that they dropped on Hiroshima, which is essentially a giant shotgun inside that bomb, firing a highly-enriched, weapons-grade-enriched uranium slug into a target of the same. That causes a super-critical reaction. They didn't even test that bomb.
It's 1940s technology, simple stuff. They didn't test that. The Trinity test was of the Nagasaki bomb, which was a plutonium implosion bomb.
That's the kind of bomb that can be miniaturized and married to a missile. However, the Iranians have no plutonium route to the bomb, because even though they still do have one heavy water reactor at Boucher and it produces plutonium waste, they do not have the facility required to reprocess that waste, get the impurities out to make it possible to use for weapons fuel. Under the JCPOA, which they're still in this part of it with the Russians, is that every two or three years or so, they shut down the reactor and the Russians will come and get all the plutonium waste and take it away.
Their plutonium route to the bomb did not exist at all.”
“Their uranium route to the bomb was delayed for at least one year. Then, as I say, at the end of that year, they would have had enough to make one bomb with, but then no way to deliver it other than slap it on the back of a flatbed truck or something like that.”
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