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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?
They either don't really build a nuclear weapon or it's a red herring
Iran was enriching nuclear material, which it has been using for civilian nuclear power generation. This is an important distinction. The American regime is "flooding the zone" with bullshit, so that when we hear "nuclear," your mind sort of auto-completes the phrase with "weapons." But Iran has (had?) a nuclear enrichment program that was verified by the IAEA to be used for things like radiation therapy to treat cancer, and power generation.
The idea that it has to be "weapons" is implanted in your mind with propaganda techniques, like Goebbels' big lie.
I find it a little hard to swallow that since inspections ended (thanks to Trump) that Iran hasn't started enriching some weapons grade uranium. It's not like it takes different equipment.
The "intelligence" that Iran is weeks away from getting a weapon is obviously complete bullshit. I'm just saying that I'm sure they have been working that direction, maybe just preparing for a time when it made more strategic sense to start building them. If they ever want nukes, they will need to make a whole lot at once, just to avoid getting invaded after the first test.
Indeed, I agree. I phrased that sentence with great care, to point out that there are plenty of legitimate, non-weapons reasons for Iran to have a nuclear materials enrichment program, and it is well-documented that it has been using its program for exactly that. That's the important point, here: Iran has a right to enrich uranium for domestic use, and had been doing so under the supervision of IAEA inspectors who verified that it was for domestic use, but the U.S. regime is deploying propaganda to bury that fact.
Maybe the government also had a secondary aim of maintaining a "breakout capability" to be able to produce material for weapons in a relatively short time. I wouldn't be surprised, because... that's exactly what I think I would do were I in their shoes, facing a genocidal, revanchist enemy enabled by a superpower that spends stunning amounts of money on invading and destroying other nations.
and had been doing so under the supervision of IAEA inspectors who verified that it was for domestic use,
This part is just wrong. The IAEA has continued to report on Iran as best they can, but their monitoring equipment has been removed and there have been no inspections for over four years. I don't want to repeat myself, but elsewhere in this discussion I included excerpts from the most recent IAEA quarterly report that back this up.
It's possible to strike nuclear power plants in such ways that on-site staff are at high risk of death but nearby population is not. I'd assume it's the same for nuclear silos? Or, they didn't do much damage?
What silos? If you're envisioning nuclear-armed missiles, the Fascist Mind Trick is working on you.
I don't know (I try to ignore such news) but I was just writing in generic terms
That's why I point it out. The Mind Trick is working, and they're successfully shaping the story so that folks who aren't paying close attention (that is, the majority of us) start imagining silos with ICBMs.
Because.there was never any nuclear arms facilities. We bombed random shit.
Wow. +23 -3 on a verifiably false claim. So this place can be as dumb as reddit. Iran has known enrichment facilities, remember the whole " Iran nuclear deal" last time?
Is enrichment the same as weapons?
Nope. No way to tell them apart without in person inspection. It's like the difference between vodka and everclear; both use the same distillation gear but with different goals
Too bad we tore up the treaty that allowed us to do those inspections and then launched a sneak attack instead of finishing the talks that we're about to establish another treaty.
They were confirmed nuclear enrichment sites though. Iran openly admits that’s what those sites were. Definitely not “random shit.”
Here's the thing about refined uranium. It's a whole lot more portable than unrefined uranium. That's even more true of uranium that's been refined to the point where it could be used to make a nuclear weapon within weeks. There's no reason to think it would be stored on site, especially after a week of Israeli bombardment.
well duh. there was as much “nuclear material” there as there was “wmds” when bushy wanted to invade iraq.
Dude stop. Iran did/does have a nuclear program. It’s not secret and is something they’re quite proud of. There’s a difference from having a nuclear program, which they definitely did have and no one disagrees, and having a nuclear weapons program, which has been widely up for debate largely bc of how secretive Iran has been about it.
Show your source. Prove the positive (that they have a weapons capable program.)
Wanting electricity or cancer treatment is not the same. Having that type of program does not make the Israel/US bombs ok.
Additionally, if the US, who has used nukes on civilians, can have weapons, why can’t another sovereign nation have them?
Nothing Iran has done or does is as bad as the US’ history regarding nukes. Them having a weapons program does not make the Israel/US bombs ok.
Ok but stay with me. Maybe the bombing was so good it blew up all the radiation?
If there’s supposed to be an article link it’s not showing up for me, so here’s a link: https://www.iaea.org/newscenter/pressreleases/update-on-developments-in-iran-4
“I have repeatedly stated that nuclear facilities should never be attacked,” Director General Grossi of IAEA.
