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Iranian enrichment is worrying, but weapons-grade uranium doesn’t a bomb make
2021-04-23
[IsraelTimes] Amassing high-grade fissile material is only the first step toward an atomic weapon, and Tehran’s latest violation of the JCPOA does not substantially change the timeline

Most of that time would be needed not to produce the 90 percent enriched uranium needed for a weapon, but the other components of such a device, notably the detonator, which the Israeli military believes would take some 21 months to design and construct.
Iran’s enrichment of uranium to 60 percent represents not only the latest in a series of escalating violations of the 2015 nuclear accord, but the closest the Islamic Theocratic Republic has ever come to producing weapons-grade fissile material.

For countries that oppose a nuclear Iran, it is a worrying development, bringing Tehran one step closer to a bomb. But it is also just one step, and not the final one, toward that goal.
Posted by:trailing wife

#7  Iran has ships and Tel Aviv, the second most populous city after Jerusalem and the economic center of Israel, is a seaport.
Posted by: magpie   2021-04-23 09:20  

#6  weapons-grade uranium doesn’t a bomb make

yup, it does - dirty bomb.
Posted by: Mercutio   2021-04-23 07:53  

#5  Nukes don't need air delivery.
Posted by: Rob Crawford   2021-04-23 06:11  

#4  ^And give it to their Pali pals - wunderbar.
Posted by: g(r)omgoru PB   2021-04-23 06:07  

#3  1. With respect to a nuclear explosive device, a crucial step is the delivery. Iran has missiles but getting a bomb compact enough to be carried on a missile may be difficult. Also as Israel improves its anti missile capability, Israel could shoot the missile down. They could obviously use a plane but that would be less difficult to shoot down.

2. They could build a dirty bomb, i.e. a radioactive dispersal device, right now.
Posted by: Lord Garth   2021-04-23 05:08  

#2  They’re not working with plutonium. It doesn’t take fancy parts or a lot of time to make an uranium gun bomb like the Hiroshima weapon. The US didn’t even bother to test it. It’s not as efficient as an implosion device, but they don’t care. It won’t take much to do Israel or establish MAD.
Posted by: KBK   2021-04-23 00:54  

#1  Just buy the necessary parts from Pakistain or NKor. Easy peasy!
Posted by: SteveS   2021-04-23 00:21  

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