"Russia is weak. It’s just a gas station with nukes. Russia is losing badly. Russia is running out of missiles. Russian people are ready to revolt.”

@Thinkerbell Conflating the nation of Israel with the religion of Judaism in a way that rhymes -- is that the best you've got?

tRump went against the US Intelligence community's best estimates. Oh, but oil prices will rise... who, other than Putin, will benefit from that??

@ElwoodBlues

One doesn't have to be religious in order to be Jewish, Ellie.

But as usual, you have ducked telling the whole story, obvious though it may have been, for your own partisan political purposes.


"And the codger never faltered, never once the left-line altered,
Always fudged and always paltered..."

@ElwoodBlues

"VIENNA (AP) — Inspectors from the United Nations nuclear watchdog found uranium particles enriched up to 83.7% in Iran’s underground Fordo nuclear site, a report seen Tuesday by The Associated Press said."

https://apnews.com/article/iran-nuclear-uranium-enrichment-germany-israel-c9b3669a7721bd8929d465117c81b70f

And that was over two years ago, Ellie. 🙄

"And the codger never faltered, never once the left-line altered,
Always fudged and always paltered..."

@Thinkerbell Takes more than U235 to make a fission bomb, stinker. Didn't you watch Oppenheimer? They spent years testing detonations to get a spherically symmetric implosion. And then there's the neutron mirrors.

On the other hand, it doesn't take much radioactive material of any sort to make a dirty bomb. Far less than critical mass. Oops.

The trouble with our conservative friends is not that they're ignorant; it's just that they know so much that isn't so.

@ElwoodBlues

True to form, you're fudging again, Ellie.

Spherically symmetric implosions are only required for plutonium bombs (the only type tested by Oppenheimer).

A U-235 bomb's detonation is much simpler.

https://chem.libretexts.org/Courses/Furman_University/CHM101%3A_Chemistry_and_Global_Awareness_(Gordon)/06%3A_Nuclear_Weapons-_Fission_and_Fusion/6.04%3A_The_Manhattan_Project_-_Critical_Mass_and_Bomb_Construction



Yeah, the Mullahs don't need uranium at all; they could just set off an anthrax powder explosion instead.

"And the codger never faltered, never once the left-line altered,
Always fudged and always paltered..."

@Thinkerbell Spherically symmetric implosions are more efficient - higher percentage of fission - and thus make better use of available materials. They're also smaller and lighter and thus better missile warheads.


Yeah, they just need somebody they're really pisssed off at. And guess who added the US to that category.

@ElwoodBlues

You're fudging yet again, Ellie.

And you are dodging (as usual) the point that a U-235 bomb is very simple to detonate, after pretending that Iran would take years to develop an (unnecessary) spherical implosion detonator. And now you pretend it wouldn't be "modern" enough if the Iranians used the primitive gun type. 🤣


Oh, my mistake, Ellie... I thought the Mullahs had been yelling "Death to America!" for many years now. I'm sure glad I have you to set me straight on these matters. 🤣 🤣

"And the codger never faltered, never once the left-line altered,
Always fudged and always paltered..." 🤣 🤣 🤣

@ElwoodBlues


Ok, have it your (fudged) way. Why are you pretending (as usual) that Iran would not have been working on a spherically symmetric implosion detonator at the same time that it was enriching uranium and playing the long game?

In case you (conveniently) forgot, this is what you said about the Manhattan Project in that regard:


And now you ask:


"On 8 January 2020, five days after the airstrike [that killed Soleimani], Iran launched a series of missile attacks on U.S. forces based in Iraq, the first known direct engagement between Iran and the U.S. since the naval battle precipitating the Vincennes incident on 3 July 1988."

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Assassination_of_Qasem_Soleimani

I urge you to see a neurologist about your failing memory, Ellie.
Soon you will be a Bidenesque vegetable. 😯

"And the codger never faltered, never once the left-line altered,
Always fudged and always paltered..." 🤣 🤣 🤣

@Thinkerbell

Yes, Ellie, old folks like you tend to have a very bad memory, as Hur correctly reported.

@Thinkerbell asks Because it's the kind of activity that's hard to keep hidden from sensors like spy satellites and seismic detectors (Iran has dozens).
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Yep, they shoot back when they've been hit. And that incident culminated in the Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps shooting down a civilian airliner, Ukraine International Airlines Flight 752, causing 176 deaths. The IRGC can be rather bloodthirsty. Or had you forgotten??

I urge you to see a neurologist about your failing memory, stinker.
Soon you will be a Tяumpesque jaw-flapping vegetable. 😯

@Thinkerbell Another thing your failing memory prevented you from responding to:


Adding to that:


https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-14839869/Where-Irans-missing-880lbs-uranium.html

OOPS