Plutonium, no good.
From Asia Times, September 9:
JCPOA required Tehran to stop all plutonium production but there is good reason to believe it clandestinely continues
The UN’s IAEA has reported that Iran has 55.6 kilograms (122.6 pounds) of 60% enriched uranium. The body says this means Iran is able to produce up to 25 kg (55 lbs) of 90% enriched uranium, enough for a nuclear bomb.
The real story could be even more concerning. Consider the hoary phrase, “There’s more than one way to skin a cat.” Similarly, there’s more than one way to make a nuclear bomb.
The Union of Concerned Scientists has said that it might be possible to produce a fission-type nuclear weapon with as little as 15kg (33 lbs) of highly enriched uranium. The Hiroshima bomb, which was uranium-fueled, required 64kg (141 lbs) of enriched uranium.
But if enriched Uranium-235 is one way to produce a nuclear bomb, a plutonium bomb is also possible – and Iran has pursued both. It is worth considering that Iran could have a hidden plutonium program – or, alternatively, is acquiring plutonium from outside.
North Korea produces plutonium at its Yongbyon reactor complex situated 60 miles north of Pyongyang. It appears to have surplus plutonium and is aiming to produce even more. North Korea, Iran and Syria cooperated in building a clone of this reactor in eastern Syria at Al Kibar. That reactor was destroyed in a complex Israeli operation on September 5-6, 2007.
For the record, the 2015 Joint Comprehensive Plan of Action (JCPOA) nuclear agreement declared all plutonium production off limits for Iran. Iran was required to halt the construction of a plutonium reactor at Arak and was said to have filled the reactor’s core with cement.
But in 2020 Iran’s atomic energy chief, Ali Akbar Salehi, announced that the JCPOA-required optic was only for show. “When they told us to pour cement into the tubes,” he recalled, “we said: ‘Fine. We will pour.’ But we did not tell them that we had other tubes. Otherwise, they would have told us to pour cement into those tubes, as well.”.....
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I believe when the Jews say "Never again", they mean "Never again" which raises the questions: where are those Israeli submarine-launched nukes pointed, what would be interpreted as enough provocation to launch and do they, like the British, have Letters of Last Resort, orders to be opened in the event contact with Tel Aviv is lost?
Those are a couple Israeli Air Force F-15's the Polish government invited to do a flyover of Auschwitz-Birkenau on September 4, 2003.
