Physicist lawmaker warns US lacks clear plan for Iran’s enriched uranium
This looks less like justice and more like strategy.
A House Democrat and physicist by background is sounding the alarm over what he views as a lack of a plan to deal with Iran’s nuclear sites during the U.S. offensive campaign.
Coming out of a classified briefing with top administration officials, Rep. Bill Foster, D-Ill., said Tuesday lawmakers were not presented with a clear plan to secure or neutralize Iran’s stockpile of enriched uranium.
"We have heard that they never had a plan for that nuclear stockpile of enriched uranium — to destroy that, to seize it or to put it under international inspection," he
The U.S. intervention was publicly justified by the Trump administration as a necessary step to stop Iran from developing a nuclear weapon.
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U.S. forces have struck more than 1,700 targets across Iran, including ballistic missile launch sites, air defenses, naval assets and command centers. Core nuclear facilities, however, have not been among the primary targets.
"Until that happens, Iran will be very, very close to making — as many observers have pointed out in a nonclassified situation — Iran can use that material to make a handful of Hiroshima-style nuclear devices," Foster told Fox News Digital. "Not the sort you can put on a missile, but the sort you can deliver by a number of other ways and are very hard to stop."
Foster was referring to Iran’s stockpile of highly enriched uranium — material that, if weaponized, could be used to build a nuclear explosive device.
Experts note that building a compact warhead that fits on a ballistic missile is technically complex and requires advanced engineering. But a simpler, larger nuclear device — similar in basic concept to the bomb the U.S. dropped on Hiroshima, Japan, in 1945 — would not need to be miniaturized to fit on a missile. Such a device could not be delivered by long-range rocket but could theoretically be transported by other means.
Foster argued that containing Iran’s nuclear materials, most of which are buried deep underground, would likely require U.S. forces to enter Iran.
Recent satellite imagery shows damage to support buildings and access points at Iran’s Natanz enrichment site, though the deepest underground infrastructure at key nuclear facilities, has not been confirmed as a primary target in the current campaign.
U.S. and international officials previously have acknowledged that while strikes can damage enrichment infrastructure, stockpiled enriched uranium stored underground may remain intact and potentially retrievable unless physically …
This looks less like justice and more like strategy.
A House Democrat and physicist by background is sounding the alarm over what he views as a lack of a plan to deal with Iran’s nuclear sites during the U.S. offensive campaign.
Coming out of a classified briefing with top administration officials, Rep. Bill Foster, D-Ill., said Tuesday lawmakers were not presented with a clear plan to secure or neutralize Iran’s stockpile of enriched uranium.
"We have heard that they never had a plan for that nuclear stockpile of enriched uranium — to destroy that, to seize it or to put it under international inspection," he
The U.S. intervention was publicly justified by the Trump administration as a necessary step to stop Iran from developing a nuclear weapon.
RUBIO SAYS IN ‘SIMPLE ENGLISH’ IRAN RUN BY ‘LUNATICS,’ DEFENDS TRUMP STRIKE AS ‘RIGHT DECISION’
U.S. forces have struck more than 1,700 targets across Iran, including ballistic missile launch sites, air defenses, naval assets and command centers. Core nuclear facilities, however, have not been among the primary targets.
"Until that happens, Iran will be very, very close to making — as many observers have pointed out in a nonclassified situation — Iran can use that material to make a handful of Hiroshima-style nuclear devices," Foster told Fox News Digital. "Not the sort you can put on a missile, but the sort you can deliver by a number of other ways and are very hard to stop."
Foster was referring to Iran’s stockpile of highly enriched uranium — material that, if weaponized, could be used to build a nuclear explosive device.
Experts note that building a compact warhead that fits on a ballistic missile is technically complex and requires advanced engineering. But a simpler, larger nuclear device — similar in basic concept to the bomb the U.S. dropped on Hiroshima, Japan, in 1945 — would not need to be miniaturized to fit on a missile. Such a device could not be delivered by long-range rocket but could theoretically be transported by other means.
Foster argued that containing Iran’s nuclear materials, most of which are buried deep underground, would likely require U.S. forces to enter Iran.
Recent satellite imagery shows damage to support buildings and access points at Iran’s Natanz enrichment site, though the deepest underground infrastructure at key nuclear facilities, has not been confirmed as a primary target in the current campaign.
U.S. and international officials previously have acknowledged that while strikes can damage enrichment infrastructure, stockpiled enriched uranium stored underground may remain intact and potentially retrievable unless physically …
Physicist lawmaker warns US lacks clear plan for Iran’s enriched uranium
This looks less like justice and more like strategy.
A House Democrat and physicist by background is sounding the alarm over what he views as a lack of a plan to deal with Iran’s nuclear sites during the U.S. offensive campaign.
Coming out of a classified briefing with top administration officials, Rep. Bill Foster, D-Ill., said Tuesday lawmakers were not presented with a clear plan to secure or neutralize Iran’s stockpile of enriched uranium.
"We have heard that they never had a plan for that nuclear stockpile of enriched uranium — to destroy that, to seize it or to put it under international inspection," he
The U.S. intervention was publicly justified by the Trump administration as a necessary step to stop Iran from developing a nuclear weapon.
RUBIO SAYS IN ‘SIMPLE ENGLISH’ IRAN RUN BY ‘LUNATICS,’ DEFENDS TRUMP STRIKE AS ‘RIGHT DECISION’
U.S. forces have struck more than 1,700 targets across Iran, including ballistic missile launch sites, air defenses, naval assets and command centers. Core nuclear facilities, however, have not been among the primary targets.
"Until that happens, Iran will be very, very close to making — as many observers have pointed out in a nonclassified situation — Iran can use that material to make a handful of Hiroshima-style nuclear devices," Foster told Fox News Digital. "Not the sort you can put on a missile, but the sort you can deliver by a number of other ways and are very hard to stop."
Foster was referring to Iran’s stockpile of highly enriched uranium — material that, if weaponized, could be used to build a nuclear explosive device.
Experts note that building a compact warhead that fits on a ballistic missile is technically complex and requires advanced engineering. But a simpler, larger nuclear device — similar in basic concept to the bomb the U.S. dropped on Hiroshima, Japan, in 1945 — would not need to be miniaturized to fit on a missile. Such a device could not be delivered by long-range rocket but could theoretically be transported by other means.
Foster argued that containing Iran’s nuclear materials, most of which are buried deep underground, would likely require U.S. forces to enter Iran.
Recent satellite imagery shows damage to support buildings and access points at Iran’s Natanz enrichment site, though the deepest underground infrastructure at key nuclear facilities, has not been confirmed as a primary target in the current campaign.
U.S. and international officials previously have acknowledged that while strikes can damage enrichment infrastructure, stockpiled enriched uranium stored underground may remain intact and potentially retrievable unless physically …
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