Pickaxe Mountain is repeatedly mentioned now in the Western press. And that's because the Israelis are obsessed with it and losing sleep over it. Trump the corrupt compromised Zionist will likely try to do something about it before this war ends.
I do not believe however that even with enriched uranium and some centrifuges Iran can make a nuke because you need more equipment and facilities than that. The window for Iran to make a nuke has passed.
The main things you need is about 100-200 centrifuges of IR-6 or IR-4 generation. That can be packed into pretty small halls in a mountain or underneath a city or anywhere really. Remember that Pakistan went nuclear with AQ Khan’s Gen 1 design aka IR-1 design. IR-6 is 5
x to 10x more efficient (SWU). That means 1 IR-6 centuries can do the work of at least 5 Pakistani Khan Gen 1 centrifuges from 30+ years ago.
So Spin the 60% uranium to weapons grade.
Then take the uranium and fashion it into uranium metal core (certain facilities can do this ad hoc since the main facility was destroyed in the 12 day war).
After that fashion the bridge detonator to create the chain reaction needed (this was likely solved in the early 2000s).
Ideally Iran would need at least 4-5 bombs.
1 to detonate for testing. And a 2nd to detonate 2 weeks later to show the West that:
A) first detonation wasn’t a fluke
B) they have more than one nuke
Weaponization to get it to fit on a missile warhead will take longer, but Iran isn’t trying to race to get this on a missile.
As I said when this war began, if Iran started sprinting for the bomb after the 12 day war then it should be testing it by the end of this year.
If they don’t test by end of this year, then it’s likely that the order was never given.
honestly I hate when random people show up on this thread makes my ignore list a lot longer
but honestly I hope the Iranians do go nuclear not for them to actually use a nuclear weapon against anyone but to keep these fools away so weird that this “intelligence” is coming out now and how no one noticed all of this movement until recently
