Buckle up boyos! yerr goin' to Iran!
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Even if true, don't care. Every country should have nukes. Countries have a natural right to self defense too.
The only worrisome part here is the "US accuses" part; I'm much more concerned with that than the "Iran achieves nukes" part...after all, been there, done that. They "achieve a nuke" pretty much every year...twice in election years.
I feel like I could google how to make a nuke and get decent idea of it. This is WWII technology, it’s not ancient magic.
I believe the "secret" (really, the equipment is just heavily controlled) part of making a nuke is properly enriching the uranium to weapons grade.
There is more to it than that. Every explosive in the casing has to detonate at exactly the same time to properly compress the core. This means taking everything like the length of each wire into account and delaying signals to specific sections so that they are timed perfectly. It is not easy to do.
If they are off by even a bit, it just becomes a dirty bomb.
But you are right that enrichment is the biggest hurdle.