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Top-Secret US Replica of Iran Nuclear Sites Key To Weapons Deal
Lasrick writes Paul Richter at the LA Times has a very cool article describing replicas of Iran's nuclear facilities that the U.S. operates in order to study what Iran's technical capabilities are. "Using centrifuges acquired when Libya abandoned its nuclear program in 2003, as well as American-built equipment, the government has spent millions of dollars over more than a decade to build replicas of the enrichment facilities that are the pride of Iran's nuclear program. Since negotiations with Iran began in earnest, U.S. nuclear technicians have spent long hours tinkering with the machines to test different restrictions and see how much they would limit Iran's ability to convert uranium into bomb fuel."
No, Iran never went to war with Iraq because Iraq invaded Iran. Iran was actually fighting a defensive war.
But other than that, you are right. Actually believing a Muslim would not cause harm to other Muslims is laughably naive.
With nuclear weapons critical mass is critical mass, you really can't cheat physics by using lower uranium concentrations or less mass
Refining uranium is a numbers game, and during ww2 the US was expending vast resources and numerous experimental approaches towards getting weapons grade material. Much more resources than a smaller country like Iran could afford. They also generated a significant amount of plutonium in addition to the uranium
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Sure you would. Me too, probably.
But what I wouldn't do is go somewhere to blow up random civilians. Even if it was effective. And I certainly wouldn't pretend that God wanted me to do it.
And let's be clear, Iran sponsors terrorism that has nothing to do with protecting itself, and has done so for years. They seem like a nice eccentric country to people who fail to realize that the whole "Revolutionary" in "Revolutionary Guard" is not just for Iran. The whole Iranian Revolution was fully intended to be a theocratic Shiite uprising across the region and beyond.
Revolutionary Iran is *expansionistic*, it has merely been checked in its ambitions. Don't be confused between them being stopped and them being an innocent regime that just wants to be left alone. Iran with nukes is more war, not less. And if there is going to be a war, I want the US to win it, because in the end, we'll at least try to do the right thing, and failing that, we'll leave.