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Even after US strikes, Iran should still have the flexibility to make a nuclear bomb

By Editorial Board Published June 22, 2025 6 Min Read
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Even after US strikes, Iran should still have the flexibility to make a nuclear bomb

It might be wise to attend till the mud has settled earlier than judging whether or not the US strikes on Iran had been, in Donald Trump’s, phrases, “a spectacular military success”.

And when dropping bombs that weigh greater than 13 tonnes every, there’s going to be loads of mud.

The US claims to have struck Iran’s three largest nuclear services.

Maybe crucial is the Fordow advanced, buried deep in a mountain close to town of Qom – it was the one one not beforehand broken by Israeli strikes over the previous few days.

The declare by the US that it dropped no less than six of its largest GBU-57 bunker buster bombs on Fordow is telling.

Regardless of their measurement, it was identified that considered one of them can be inadequate to penetrate 80+ metres of stable rock believed to shelter Iran’s most refined uranium enrichment know-how deep inside Fordow.

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A bunker-busting bomb. File pic: US Air Pressure by way of AP

It appears the US used their bombs to focus on the mountain stronghold’s three entrances – no less than that’s what Iranian state media seems to be claiming.

The concept is to depend on the numerous shockwaves generated by the blasts to destroy infrastructure inside and, on the very least, entomb the ability, rendering it ineffective. For now, no less than.

If nuclear services at Isfahan, Natanz and Fordow had been “obliterated” as Donald Trump has claimed, and even crippled, it could definitely halt Iran’s capability to counterpoint the uranium wanted to make a viable nuclear weapon.

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Clarke speaking to Phillips.

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Clarke: The mud might want to settle earlier than we all know true impression of US strikes

However that is not the identical as stopping Iran’s capability to make a nuclear bomb.

To do this, they want “weapons-grade” uranium; the mandatory metal-shaping, explosives and timing know-how wanted to set off nuclear fission within the bomb; and a mechanism for delivering it.

The services focused within the US raid are devoted to reaching the primary goal. Taking naturally occurring uranium ore, which comprises round 0.7% uranium 235 – the isotope wanted for nuclear fission – and concentrating it.

The centrifuges you hear about are the instruments wanted to counterpoint U-235 to the 90% purity wanted for a compact “implosion”-type warhead that may be delivered by a missile.

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Yalda Hakim reports from Jerusalem.

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Iranian media: ‘A part of Fordow’ attacked

And the truth is Iran’s centrifuges have been spinning for a very long time.

United Nations nuclear inspectors warned in Could that Iran had no less than 408kg of uranium “enriched” to 60%.

Attending to that degree represents 90% of the effort and time to get to 90% U-235. And people 400kg would yield sufficient of that weapons-grade uranium to make 9 nuclear weapons, the inspectors concluded.

The second component is one thing Iran has additionally been engaged on for twenty years.

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Former US diplomat Alan Eyre

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‘US strikes will not finish Iran’s nuclear programme’

Exactly shaping uranium metallic and making formed explosive prices to crush it in the proper option to obtain “criticality”, the spark for the sub-atomic chain response that releases the terrifying vitality in a nuclear explosion.

In its current bombing marketing campaign, Israel is believed to have focused services the place Iranian nuclear scientists had been doing a few of that work.

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However in contrast to the commercial processes wanted to counterpoint uranium, these later steps might be carried out in laboratory-sized services. Simpler to pack up and transfer, and simpler to cover from prying eyes.

16 cargo trucks line up at the entrance of the Fordow nuclear site on 19 June. Pic: Maxar Technologies

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16 cargo vans line up on the entrance of the Fordow nuclear website on 19 June. Pic: Maxar Applied sciences

Provided that it is understood Iran already moved enriched uranium out of Fordow forward of the US strike, it is from sure that Iran has, in reality, misplaced its capability to make a bomb.

And whereas the strikes could have delayed the logistics, it is attainable they’ve emboldened a threatened Iran to accentuate its warhead-making functionality if it does nonetheless have one.

Making a extra compact implosion-based warhead will not be simple. There’s debate amongst specialists about how superior Iran is alongside that street.

But when it felt sufficiently motivated, it does produce other, much less refined nuclear choices.

Even 60% enriched uranium, of which – keep in mind – it has rather a lot, might be coaxed to criticality in a a lot bigger, cruder nuclear machine.

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This would not pose as a lot risk to its enemies, as it could be too heavy to suit on even one of the best of Iran’s long-range missiles.

However it could, nonetheless, elevate Iran to the standing of a nuclear energy.

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