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[-] SpaceCowboy@lemmy.ca 0 points 1 day ago

It was months away he was warning about, and that was Iran's strategy with uranium enrichment. Develop what was needed so that at any time they could give the order to build a nuke and within six month have a nuke.

It's like partially building a house and then pausing on the project when you're a few months away from completing it. You will always be a few months away from completing construction of the house until you make the decision to continue working on it.

Netanyahu sucks, Trump sucks, but the IRGC also sucks, and they had a uranium enrichment program while the uranium the imported from Russia was already enriched to the level needed for their one civilian nuclear power plant.

There's politics and then there's science. No civilian nuclear reactor needs enrichment about 5% and Iran has uranium enriched to 60%. Not enough to build a nuclear weapon (but definitely enough to build a dirty bomb) but also way more than needed for civilian uses. They've been at 60% for a decade, they could enrich it further and build a nuclear weapons in less a year if they chose to do that. So yes, they've been months away from building a nuke for about a decade. It's just science is difficult to explain, Netanyahu and Trump suck at explaining things (which is their job), and nobody wants to to listen to them because they suck, and people struggle to understand science even in the best of times.

Politics is more important in people's minds than science. W. Bush lied about Saddam's nuclear program, so there's a boy who cried wolf situation. Remember, at the end of the story there actually was a wolf, that wolf ate the boy and ate the sheep and the village was fucked.

this post was submitted on 10 Jul 2026
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