So it’s pretty clear Iran is building an implosion bomb using uranium. It would be small enough to go on a ballistic missile. Both China and Pakistan have or had these weapons in their inventory. And of course Iran got much of its nuclear know how from Pakistan. Iran doesn’t have reprocessing capabilities and so can’t produce a plutonium…
So it’s pretty clear Iran is building an implosion bomb using uranium. It would be small enough to go on a ballistic missile. Both China and Pakistan have or had these weapons in their inventory. And of course Iran got much of its nuclear know how from Pakistan. Iran doesn’t have reprocessing capabilities and so can’t produce a plutonium weapon. It was building a small heavy water reactor at Arak so it seems a plutonium weapon was part of the plan. Iran was supposed to pour cement into the reactor vessel but it’s not clear if that happened.
So it’s pretty clear Iran is building an implosion bomb using uranium. It would be small enough to go on a ballistic missile. Both China and Pakistan have or had these weapons in their inventory. And of course Iran got much of its nuclear know how from Pakistan. Iran doesn’t have reprocessing capabilities and so can’t produce a plutonium weapon. It was building a small heavy water reactor at Arak so it seems a plutonium weapon was part of the plan. Iran was supposed to pour cement into the reactor vessel but it’s not clear if that happened.