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To: SkyDancer
When being home schooled I read about WW2 history and read a book about the building of the atomic bomb. Since Iran was only enriching uranium (U238) the fissionable material was an isotope of U238 being U235. Was Iran separating out U235 from U238 or just enriching U238?

It is the same thing. They "enrich" by separating out the 235 from the 238. The longer the process goes, the closer to fissionable material they get.

It was idiocy on our part allowing them to get so far.

6 posted on 06/19/2025 11:12:51 AM PDT by DiogenesLamp ("of parents owing allegiance to no other sovereignty.")
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To: DiogenesLamp

Yeah, the book was fascinating in how all that was done. Now I read that Iran was producing plutonium which in itself is hard to have it go critical mass.


31 posted on 06/19/2025 11:35:32 AM PDT by SkyDancer ( ~ Am Yisrael Chai ~)
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To: DiogenesLamp

“On our part”

That would’ve been Obama/Biden and Biden/Harris, et al, doing our part on behalf of us stupid little people


50 posted on 06/19/2025 12:00:22 PM PDT by shotgun
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