Posted on 05/09/2026 2:24:56 PM PDT by McGruff
Nuclear weapons experts are raising the alarm bells over the pressing need for the Trump administration to codify in any new deal a ban on Iran’s attempts to use plutonium from its facilities to build an atomic bomb.
The administration and non-proliferation experts have largely focused on the Islamic Republic’s atomic weapons facilities that use uranium as the material for building nuclear bombs. Tehran could take advantage of this blind spot and covertly build a plutonium-based nuclear weapon.
Jason Brodsky, policy director at United Against Nuclear Iran (UANI), told Fox News Digital: "I do believe any proposed deal with Iran needs to address the plutonium pathway to nuclear weapons. Israel struck the Arak heavy water reactor twice over the last year — in June 2025 and in March 2026. Intelligence suggested Iran had repeatedly attempted to reconstruct the facility even after the bombing, so any deal with Iran should cover the plutonium pathway."
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Can’t get plutonium without uranium.
Any deal to stop Iran from nuclear capabilities must first be no uranium.
Didn’t the CIA leak yesterday say the Iranians had no nuclear ambitions?
Experts? Fox News?
They’re trying to get out ahead of Trump now?
“Experts” aka another ahole with an opinion...
Looks like United Against Nuclear Iran is a pop-up think tank whose chairman is Jeb Bush with a roster of other neo-liberal has beens.
Who are these so called “experts”? Schiff? Graham? Pelosi? Obamalamadingdong?
Don’t forget AOC (Sandy Cortez). She’s an espert at everything that involves Margaritas and Tacos.
How long does Trump plan on dragging this out? I had to fill up my car today.$4.99 a gallon.
The Russians are supposed to take the spent fuel from the Bushehr reactor. If they don’t then, yeah, that would be a source of plutonium. But supposedly we knocked out the Iran PUREX facility so it would seem to take awhile anyway.
I do hope all this negotiating with Iran by Trump is just a deliberate distraction while we’re arming Iranian opposition groups, behind the scenes. Ultimately the only long term solution to the Iranian problem is a complete and total regime change.
We need to strip Israel of its nuclear weapons, THEY are the existential threat to peace in this current era.
Genesis 12:3
New King James Version
3 I will bless those who bless you,
And I will curse him who curses you;
And in you all the families of the earth shall be blessed.”
You can take your neo-Nazi anti-Semetic crap and shove it where the sun don’t shine.
Impartially speaking, you are wrong.
The Islamic republic has been threatening Israel for decades. The regime has different goals from the people of Iran who don’t really care about Israel one way or the otyer
So have Hamas and Hezbollah. And all 3 have the elimination of Israel as their goal.
Israel is not an existential threat to a anything but anti-Israeli Islam
Any deal to stop Iran from nuclear capabilities must first be no uranium.
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The article cites a particular reactor which has produced plutonium, was bombed and is now being rebuilt. It holds enough plutonium to make 200 plutonium-based bombs. While much harder to make, for the right price, North Korea could supply the know-how skipping the testing stage.
Through Christ, the promise is kept. In fact, Muslims and others have as big a claim on Israel as others. I am anti-Zionist, and it is a movement not about a tribe or a race.
God gave Israel to the Jews. Islam says all infidels must convert, die or become slaves. I stand with Israel. FAFO.
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