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2025-03-26 Home Front: WoT
US intel report: Iran isn’t building nuclear weapon; Russia developing satellite that can carry bomb
[IsraelTimes] A US intelligence report assesses that Iran isn’t currently building a nuclear weapon, according to Reuters.
But will they, as soon as they have all the parts ready for assembly? And are they working toward getting all the parts ready to be assembled?
It also finds that Russia is developing a new satellite meant to carry a nuclear weapon, which could have “devastating consequences” for the US and the world.
Is this a five year thing or a sometime in the future one? And what about China?
Posted by trailing wife 2025-03-26 2025-03-26 01:27|| || Front Page|| [11160 views ]  Top
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#1 a new satellite meant to carry a nuclear weapon

Is it the EMP bomb?
Posted by Skidmark 2025-03-26 01:52||   2025-03-26 01:52|| Front Page Top

#2 US intel report: Iran isn’t building nuclear weapon ???????????????????????????
Posted by Grom the Affective 2025-03-26 03:15||   2025-03-26 03:15|| Front Page Top

#3 
Won't be the 1st time US Intel got it wrong.

So, explain why all the Uranium Enrichment Centrifuges ?

Also click on the "Nuclear" link for that website.

Also, what about the 15+ years of the IAEA reports showing a steady march in technology purchases focused on building basic small 100+K-ton nukes?
Posted by NN2N1 2025-03-26 05:33||   2025-03-26 05:33|| Front Page Top

#4 Dollars to doughnuts that multiple nations already have EMP satellites in geosynchronous orbits
Posted by Clem+Elmish4239 2025-03-26 07:06||   2025-03-26 07:06|| Front Page Top

#5 
If the goal is to permanently eliminate any future reproduction or inhabitation.

Then use a Dirty Nuke with a very long Half-Life of ##,### years.

BTW: the USA has had a number of such scares in the last 30 years.
eg.. José Padilla
Posted by NN2N1 2025-03-26 07:21||   2025-03-26 07:21|| Front Page Top

#6 It looks like at least parts of Trump 47 are aligned with the woke / anti-western right.

If Israel acts they should expect everything the US knows about such an action will be made known to Russia-Qatar-Iran-NK-China.

In any case the Trump 47 administration's position on Russia in Europe and Russia's allies outside of Europe is self-contradictory and not viable.

US allies outside of Europe should be prepared for a worst case US attempt to sell them out.
Posted by Elmerert Hupens2660 2025-03-26 07:46||   2025-03-26 07:46|| Front Page Top

#7 Parselspeak. Not building a nuke = producing the necessary parts before the putting-them-together party.
Posted by hyper 2025-03-26 07:54||   2025-03-26 07:54|| Front Page Top

#8 From the people who failed to predict the collapse of the Soviet empire, pick up on 9/11, and have engaged in regime change in our own country. Yeah, right.
Posted by Procopius2k 2025-03-26 08:01||   2025-03-26 08:01|| Front Page Top

#9 US allies outside of Europe should be prepared

JD Vance taunts Greenland in latest attack on European 'freeloaders' and says he will join his wife on controversial visit - but Denmark claims diplomatic win as war of words heats up

Trump team who declared European nations 'pathetic freeloaders' have 'absolutely got a case', UK defence secretary admits
Posted by Skidmark 2025-03-26 08:56||   2025-03-26 08:56|| Front Page Top

#10 I recall the 2007 Intelligence Estimate when Bush came to power and the IC said the same darn thing, that Iran was not pursuing a path to nuclearization.
Posted by mossomo 2025-03-26 12:46||   2025-03-26 12:46|| Front Page Top

#11 "US Intel" told us the bug came from a wet market, and the only cure was Remdesivir.
Posted by Thing From Snowy Mountain 2025-03-26 21:52||   2025-03-26 21:52|| Front Page Top

#12  IC said the same darn thing,

I believe it was in 2003 that they made a really big deal about it, to keep President Bush from going after Iran.
Posted by trailing wife 2025-03-26 23:52||   2025-03-26 23:52|| Front Page Top

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