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no increase in radiation following US airstrikes on Iran's nuclear
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I think you're all missing the significance of not observing an increase in radiation levels. That would absolutely cause a detectable rise in radiation if the site were active recently.
The obvious scenario would be enriched uranium getting blown up and scattered. But even if they removed the enriched stuff, doesn't everything else get blown to smithereens?
What about the U238? What about the uranium hexaflouride gas? What about contamination or contaminated parts from the equipment?
Or they just missed the target. It's known the enrichment centre is there, but exactly where you'd need to bomb a 100 meters deep target is not. So yes, either the site is inactive, or the bombing was ineffective.
There also wasn't any seismic activity on IRIS.
Those bunker busters are 'theoretically' good for 60 meters.
Never been tested in combat.
The Iranian CIVILIAN facilities are 90 to maybe 120 meters deep.
Nobody knows exactly where what is, only where the entrance is.
They are protected by uhpc concrete and more.
The US terrorists can beat their chest all they want and look like fierce heroes, I don't believe there is more than minor dammage, which was actually the intention:
Take out the imaginary threat to the genocider state with an imaginary symbolic strike so they can end their war without losing face.
They're taking a deserved beating from Iran and can now quit since the fake casus belli is supposedly neutralised.
In return Iran did a symbolic strike on empty US bases in some barbarian gulf vasal states for optics intended for their own population.
Just enough to not force the US to go to all out war.
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