You only really need 3-5% enriched uranium for a power generation program.
What you don’t need is the plans for and tooling to construct the pits / cores for nuclear weapons (which Iran first started attempting to acquire in the 1980s and has repeatedly been interdicted attempting to or successfully acquired thereafter), or huge stockpiles of 20% enriched uranium (initial production in 2010), or 60% enriched uranium (initial production in 2021), which when combined plausibly give a nuclear breakout capability as low as days to weeks. And you certainly don’t hide it all in an underground fortress unless you’re planning on conducting underground tests of nuclear weapons and make a large stockpile of material and then make affor mentioned hardened stockpile and program resistant to attack. Natanz started construction in the early 1990s and Fordow sometime around 2002. Nor do you need hardened underground bunkers for carrying out explosive tests similar to those conducted for the Manhattan project to work out how to implode the pits / cores of afformentioned weapons (again, started around 2000) to build a reactor.
It looks like a nuclear weapons program, talks like a nuclear weapons program, it’s a nuclear weapons program.
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You only really need 3-5% enriched uranium for a power generation program.
What you don’t need is the plans for and tooling to construct the pits / cores for nuclear weapons (which Iran first started attempting to acquire in the 1980s and has repeatedly been interdicted attempting to or successfully acquired thereafter), or huge stockpiles of 20% enriched uranium (initial production in 2010), or 60% enriched uranium (initial production in 2021), which when combined plausibly give a nuclear breakout capability as low as days to weeks. And you certainly don’t hide it all in an underground fortress unless you’re planning on conducting underground tests of nuclear weapons and make a large stockpile of material and then make affor mentioned hardened stockpile and program resistant to attack. Natanz started construction in the early 1990s and Fordow sometime around 2002. Nor do you need hardened underground bunkers for carrying out explosive tests similar to those conducted for the Manhattan project to work out how to implode the pits / cores of afformentioned weapons (again, started around 2000) to build a reactor.
It looks like a nuclear weapons program, talks like a nuclear weapons program, it’s a nuclear weapons program.