20 Mar 2026 2:16 pm
No, it cannot without major design changes!*Roshambo » 20 Mar 2026, 1:41 pm » wrote: ↑ Iran has Uranium enriched to 60%. 60% enriched uranium can be used to make a nuclear bomb. Iran has no bomb..
You are the one screaming "90% 90%"
There remains a significant amount of technical details needed in order to make a nuke with enrichment to only 60%, and it's believe that Iran doesn't have that ability. The explanation I've seen indicates that much more fissile material would be needed if only enriched to 60%, making the bomb too large to be able to place in an Iranian missile, and would instead have to be dropped from a plane as we did in Hiroshima. And of course, a slow-flying bomber carrying that would easily be detected and destroyed long before it could reach its target, but it WOULD likely trigger a retaliatory nuclear strike by Israel or the US in response. Iran has to make sure their bomb successfully destroys Israel before they'd risk using it.
But why do you continue to be unable to answer the question, choosing instead to keep repeating that "Iran has no bomb"?
WHAT DOES IRAN NEED SUCH HIGH ENRICHMENT FOR IF NOT TO CONSTRUCT NUCLEAR WEAPONS?
And while you're musing over that question, explain what Iran has done over the past 47 years that you would trust them NOT to build nukes IF they had that enrichment they need?
Iran can still build nuclear weapons without further enrichment. Only diplomacy will stop it
By Edwin Lyman | Analysis | July 2, 2025
Although Iran may well have every reason—both practical and strategic—not to pursue direct weaponization of its remaining 60-percent enriched HEU, this is a different issue from whether it has the technical capability to do so. The prevailing assertion that Iran needs “weapons-grade” uranium enriched to at least 90 percent uranium 235 to build a nuclear explosive device—widely repeated by government officials, the media, and commentators alike—is simply wrong.
Design considerations. In February, the New York Times reported that Iran was considering a crash program to develop a relatively unsophisticated nuclear weapon within a matter of months that could not be miniaturized to fit on a ballistic missile but could be delivered by other means.