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kyborentoday at 5:55 PM1 replyview on HN

60% is actually very close to 93%. To go from natural uranium (<1% U235) to 60% represents the vast majority of the effort. From 60% to 93% is actually quite quick; most of the material is already U235. And they already have enough to build maybe a dozen bombs.

They also have (had?) a very active ballistic missile program, and have conducted implosion experiments.

The constellation of evidence is quite clear: Iran is a threshold nuclear state with all the pieces necessary to credibly threaten the region (and soon the US homeland) with nuclear weapons.


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za3farantoday at 6:37 PM

Talking hypotheticals, while the actual threat to the region are the usa and israel

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