I am sure they are hiring new scientists or trying to get some from China, NK or Russia.
Trump presser right now. Watching it on isbn. He’s slapping the press around in his moment go glory. Watch the replay if you can. It’s catnip-lol.
But the democrats said.it was a total failure!
You've gotta be quick these days to keep up with all the visuals swirling around in a base of blueberry Ice Cream!
/Swelling Spiral Galaxy
“””He said Israel removed “two existential threats — the threat of destruction via nuclear weapons “”
I didn’t see Israel taking out nuke facilities.
LOL Bibi is full of himself!
This is twice now Netanyahu has given himself credit over Trump’s efforts.
They’ll rebuild it if they really want to.
They still have the knowledge.
It’s all Kabuki War Theater. I think what Simplicius says makes a lot of sense, both in terms of the actual strike and Iran’s “retaliation” - see article here: https://simplicius76.substack.com/p/shayrat-redux-trumps-invisible-fleet . If this is the case, the more disturbing question then is, is this this just Trump bluster or is he being kept in the dark on the actual operation?
Bibi next week probably: “Iran is 2 weeks away from a nuclear weapon”
Estimates are that Iran has invested as much as 25% of it's GDP to nuclear weapons and missile/drone development and production to arm it's proxies in the Middle East.
This investment has been done over the last 35 years.
No doubt some of the Iranian defense infrastructure survives but most of the really expensive and capitol intensive infrastructure has been destroyed.
If Iran tries to rebuild it is going to take many years of 25% of GDP level investment to re build because Israel and the US have destroyed in a few months networks and stockpiles that took Iran 50 years to build.
One of the more significant parts of the Israeli plan was the destruction of most all of Iran's military aviation which is going to make it very hard for the Ayatollahs to suppress any uprisings.
Had it not been for Colin Powell's decision to allow Saddam Hussein to use his helicopters to ruthlessly suppress Iraqi unrest, Saddam would have been gone from Iraq in less than a year.
The Israelis are not making that mistake in Iran.
Everyone laughs at the air forces of third world dictatorships like North Korea that still fly Korean War era MiG 15s but they don't realize that the MiG 15 fighters are not there to protect the North Korean people from South Korean F-16s, they are there to protect Little Kim from the North Korean people.
If the Iranian people finally try to rise up against the Revolutionary Guards, the guards are now very poorly armed to resist and their leadership is seriously reduced.
We?
Lol...
Haavaad is having a week of mourning.
As I stated previously:
Iran probably retains the ability to build nuclear bombs.
Neither Israel nor the USA can rest easy.
The number of bombs Iran can build has probably now been capped to be no more than a dozen.
If Israel not acted, the potential number of bombs would have grown by about 20 each year. The possible build rate is probably now down to roughly one a year for up to a dozen years.
Bear in mind Tel Aviv and DC remain prime targets.
As I stated before:
Be aware that enriched uranium has to be cleared from the system so more can be produced.
The clearing would probably involve converting enriched uranium hexafluoride to a solid.
That means there almost certainly are large amounts of solidified 60% U-235 somewhere in an area the size of Texas.
Be aware that the centrifuges might be made elsewhere and transported to enrichment facilities.
There’s quite likely to be still operable centrifuges in Iran.
The Iranians only need about one percent of the number of centrifuges to convert 60% U-235 to bomb grade compared to the number needed to enrich .7% U-235 uranium to 60% U-235 uranium at industrial scale.
This is just like the Suez Crisis, where the Brits, French and Israelis were forced to back off.
“China can now continue to purchase oil from Iran”
Trump
I suspect the Chinese told Trump that China had record levels of missiles while US missile stocks were depleted and that if Israel and the US didn’t back off the Chinese would supply lots of missiles to Iran.
Program, alive.
Infrastructure for program, history.
Unless they finish the job and overthrow the mullahs and “revolutionary guard” the war continues. They stopped short, so they get to do this again unless they already have a plan in place to finish it by other means.