Only a "special" person would think Iran bought thousands of $$$ centrifuges, built $$$ massive deep bunkers AND told the world they were enriching uranium to $$$ weapons grade (confirmed by the IAEA before Iran kicked them all out, they were well on the way) which has no civilian use at all... and NOT be making nukes.
They've also built $$$ ballistic missiles, bought (or tried to) various components to make atomic warheads & so forth.
They spent hundreds of millions, if not billions, to make ALL the pieces of a nuclear weapon, but they aren't actually doing it. Because: Orange Man Bad! 🤡
So what? Japan did the exact same thing. They researched the bomb and all the pieces, and made and set aside the raw materials required. And then sat on it all, never building or testing even one bomb, because they don't like, want, or need nukes. But in the event of a war, they could put those pieces together and start producing bombs in a week, just in case. I can't fault Iran for taking that same exact path, in fact I'd think they were dumb if they hadn't.
They never had the required mass of enriched uranium. Japan has very low BGR and very little radioactive materials.
They DID have a nuclear program, and post-war analysis says it was a solid design, it may have worked.
They are thought to have made a single test, but it didn't "go boom" and just left an area with some high BGR in Korea (or China, I forget).
Q: If they'd made a working A-Bomb (or 2), do you doubt Germany or Japan would not have used it? Moscow & London, Pearl Harbor and LA? Even in early '45 that would have changed everything.
So why wouldn't Iran do what it has sworn to do for 50 years now?
Only a "special" person would think Iran bought thousands of $$$ centrifuges, built $$$ massive deep bunkers AND told the world they were enriching uranium to $$$ weapons grade (confirmed by the IAEA before Iran kicked them all out, they were well on the way) which has no civilian use at all... and NOT be making nukes.
They've also built $$$ ballistic missiles, bought (or tried to) various components to make atomic warheads & so forth.
They spent hundreds of millions, if not billions, to make ALL the pieces of a nuclear weapon, but they aren't actually doing it. Because: Orange Man Bad! 🤡
Idiocy.
So what? Japan did the exact same thing. They researched the bomb and all the pieces, and made and set aside the raw materials required. And then sat on it all, never building or testing even one bomb, because they don't like, want, or need nukes. But in the event of a war, they could put those pieces together and start producing bombs in a week, just in case. I can't fault Iran for taking that same exact path, in fact I'd think they were dumb if they hadn't.
They never had the required mass of enriched uranium. Japan has very low BGR and very little radioactive materials.
They DID have a nuclear program, and post-war analysis says it was a solid design, it may have worked.
They are thought to have made a single test, but it didn't "go boom" and just left an area with some high BGR in Korea (or China, I forget).
Q: If they'd made a working A-Bomb (or 2), do you doubt Germany or Japan would not have used it? Moscow & London, Pearl Harbor and LA? Even in early '45 that would have changed everything.
So why wouldn't Iran do what it has sworn to do for 50 years now?