UN nuclear chief: Iran ‘weeks, not months’
from enough uranium to make a bomb
Times of Israel,
by
Toi Staff
&
Agencies
Original Article
Posted By: JoElla Bee,
4/23/2024 5:35:20 PM
The head of the United Nations nuclear watchdog has said that it would take Iran just weeks to have enough enriched uranium to make a nuclear bomb, and that Tehran’s activity, alongside the limited access it grants to its facilities, “raises eyebrows.”
But International Atomic Energy Agency chief Rafael Mariano Grossi told Deutsche Welle in a report published Monday that attacking Iran’s nuclear facilities should be a “no-go.”
Grossi said that Iran is “weeks rather than months” away from having enough enriched uranium to make a nuclear weapon.
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Reply 1 - Posted by:
DVC 4/23/2024 5:53:41 PM (No. 1704782)
That's the bad news.
The good news is that a uranium bomb will require EXTREME purity of the particular useful isotope. Even a relatively tiny fraction of another isotope will make the material so viciously radioactive that it would be extremely dangerous to be anywhere near. Even manufacturing it would be exceptionally hazardous if they don't get the necessary purity.
To make the easiest type of nuke, the kind we used in Hiroshima, you need essentially pure, single isotope uranium, to about 1 part per million. And even then, the resulting weapon....using the Hiroshima bomb as an example is going to weigh about 10,000 lbs. and not fit in the bed of a normal long bet pickup truck, and no pickup can carry a 5 ton payload.
Very unhandy sized, and very heavy bomb, not very suitable for missile delivery. So, that's the good news about uranium bombs, and why we built one for Hiroshima, five more post war......and that was the end of that type. I'm sure that those five were disassembled relatively soon after, quickly deemed as being damned impractical.
Modern nukes use very different technology to make them substantially smaller and lighter. The Iranians haven't mastered the far more difficult technology for that type of more modern weapon....thank goodness.
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Reply 2 - Posted by:
WV.Hillbilly 4/23/2024 5:57:23 PM (No. 1704785)
Thanks Obama!
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Reply 3 - Posted by:
ussjimmycarter 4/23/2024 6:10:42 PM (No. 1704791)
OMG! We must attack! A coalition of the willing! It will be so awesome! Wood!!!🪵 Someone call Victoria! She can manage this party!!! Yea!!! Oh!! Wait! We need money! Lots of money! ATTACM!!! Mmm mmm mmm mmmm (battle hymn of the republic)…
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Reply 4 - Posted by:
3XALADY 4/23/2024 6:48:48 PM (No. 1704811)
Not to be blase' or anything, but how many times have we heard this?
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Reply 5 - Posted by:
Venturer 4/23/2024 7:33:48 PM (No. 1704833)
Use a nuke on Iran before they have a chance to use one on someone else.
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Reply 6 - Posted by:
Muguy 4/23/2024 9:30:13 PM (No. 1704886)
All thanks to NoBama who said in his book he would "side with the mooooslims"
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Reply 7 - Posted by:
privateer 4/24/2024 6:49:30 AM (No. 1705064)
He is already, and always has been, on their side. I think he thinks he's the 12th Imam.
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Reply 8 - Posted by:
Periwinkel 4/24/2024 7:19:49 AM (No. 1705092)
Haven't they been telli.ng us this for years?..same deal during the Cold War with USSR
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Reply 9 - Posted by:
Strike3 4/24/2024 7:37:42 AM (No. 1705109)
All with the help of American dollars. Taking into account #1's excellent explanation and the accuracy of Iran's missiles, anybody, anywhere could be affected by their first feeble attempts to kill the Christian world, including themselves.
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Reply 10 - Posted by:
Toodles3956 4/24/2024 9:40:19 AM (No. 1705195)
I definitely remember a speech where Obama said he would have his own army to equal that of the US. Well, he's got it!
Explains the border. Americans are a stupid people. I am an 85 year old American with some common sense.
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Reply 11 - Posted by:
Zigrid 4/24/2024 10:40:22 AM (No. 1705265)
Thank you poster #1...for all the info...watch out Saudi Arabia...iran is at your back door...iran wants to dominate the Middle East...as Barack HUSSEIN Obama has dreamed since he was in the Oval Office...legally...well...not so legally...he was born in Kenya and his birth certificate is still out here somewhere waiting to be exposed.....
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Reply 12 - Posted by:
DVC 4/24/2024 1:32:13 PM (No. 1705346)
Re #11, I think that Saudi Arabia is working behind the scenes to purchase a half a dozen nukes and the intermediate range rockets to deliver them from Pakistan. Or at least, if I were in charge of Saudi defense, that's what I'd be looking into.
SA is Sunni Muslim and Iran is run by Shia Muslims, and those two sects hate each other fiercely. I don't think any country in the region trusts Iran's mullahs in the slightest. This is why most countries have been making peace with Israel. If Iran get deliverable nukes, my bet is SA will have a batch of them very quickly.
They don't have the technology in SA to make their own, but they have the billions to buy them. The Pakistanis and Indians have been at a standoff for decades now, each with dozens or more of deliverable nukes - fortunately just deterring each other in an at least semi-sane way.
I doubt India would sell nukes and missiles to a Muslim country like SA, Sunni or Shia, but I think that the Pakistanis might do it for big enough bucks. Frankly, while in general proliferation of nukes isn't a great thing, if SA had a batch to deter Iran, that would be a good thing for peace, I think.
Still, the 12th imam prophecy is a damned scary prospect. According to that prophecy, the 12th imam (roughly equivalent to a muslim savior) will only be revealed on Earth after the Muslims start a war of Armageddon. So their religion tells them that Armageddon is a necessary religious duty.
These are very, very dangerous people.
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