Posted on 02/03/2022 10:30:27 PM PST by algore
Iran's nuclear program is on the verge of producing enough fuel for a nuclear bomb in just a matter of weeks and could have a device built in less than a year, US officials estimate.
Iran's 'breakout time' - the time it would take to produce enough weapons-grade uranium for one nuclear weapon - has advanced greatly after Donald Trump withdrew the US from a deal with the country in 2018, officials claim.
The breakout time is different from the time it would take Iran to build a nuclear weapon. Western officials believe Iran hasn't quite figured out how to build the core of a bomb and attach a warhead to a missile.
But the reduced breakout time is significantly lower than the 12-month period that formed the basis of the nuclear deal signed by President Barack Obama in 2015.
The 12-month breakout time was key to the 2015 deal Iran reached with the U.S. and other powers, although it isn’t mentioned explicitly in the accord.
The time frame was based on whether Iran violated the restraints imposed by the deal, giving the U.S. and its allies time to respond.
The Trump administration pulled out of the pact in 2018 and re-imposed sweeping sanctions on Tehran, calling Obama's deal weak. Since then, Iran has accelerated its nuclear program, reducing its breakout time to a few weeks, the Wall Street Journal reported.
US officials believe a breakout period shorter than six months wouldn't give the US enough time to respond if Iran decided to ramp up its nuclear program.
The State Department declined to comment on the breakout assessments, saying the administration is confident a deal 'would address our urgent nonproliferation concerns.'
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Personally I worry about the Tiger in the room
And the next issue of Popular Mechanics will finally have the plans for that carburetor that runs on water. Honest injun!
Seems to me I have been hearing that “..in just weeks!!” quote about Iran’s nuke bomb capabilities for a couple of years.
I heard it a great deal during the Obama years.
Yeah they might do a that or grow tits and field a women’s swim team in time for the Olympics. Even better, they might fart around and blow themselves up. Excuse me, I have to run around waving my hands with my hair on fire, screaming and shouting.
The funny thing is, Iran has had “a nuclear program”, since the 1980s, IIRC.
I heard it a great deal during the Obama years.
I've been hearing it since the Bush years. Only a couple of years after the U.S. invaded Iraq, attention turned to Iran, which was "only weeks away" from a nuclear bomb.
No, not a carburetor an Electrolator, my own invention BTW.
You mist water through the pt-cu mesh in a 2.4 ghz microwave chamber while inducing a variable field current.
The ratio of H2 to O1 is reset at a proprietary mixture and the compression is reset with an electric supercharger.
My proprietary technology will change the world
Glad I didn’t buy an electric car. That craps already obsolete. YOU THE MAN! Finally a plan comes together. 😎
you still need a battery to provide starting power, but after that as long as you can get distilled water everything is good.
Can you imagine water wars?
It ain’t solar powered? The salesman said???
I knew that!
Had to do something to get you to introduce it to the world. :)
Eventually that will be an option.
Soon the new metamaterial—. a substance engineered to have a property not found in naturally occurring materials—that combines an elastic, rubber-like substance with tiny magnets embedded in it. This new “elasto-magnetic” material takes advantage of a physical property known as a phase shift to greatly amplify the amount of energy the material can release or absorb.
A phase shift occurs when a material moves from one state to another: think of water turning into steam or liquid concrete hardening into a sidewalk. Whenever a material shifts its phase, energy is either released or absorbed. And phase shifts aren’t just limited to changes between liquid, solid and gaseous states—a shift can occur from one solid phase to another. A phase shift that releases energy can be harnessed as a power source, but getting enough energy has always been the difficult part.
They will blame Trump
I phase shifted once. Went from first childhood to the second one and it was Trump’s fault.
Not sure why we might or would get in a shooting war with either Ukraine or Taiwan.
Meanwhile in the JPOST.COM just yesterday I read
within a year Israel will have a laser that can
shoot down a missile. And of course they have
subs that can fire missiles like ours do.
Iran will have to get lucky or Israels second strike
will be hell to pay.
Never count Israel out. Remember little David
kicked Goliath’s ass and killed him with only
one shot.
Isn’t it more like a couple of decades? 🙃😀
Isn’t it a bit ironic, that one of the best IDF defense systems, is called David’s Sling?
2 weeks to glassify the desert and save the world.
Yep I totally believe that
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