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Um. Yeah. It's really easy to do, in fact. It is why Iran halted progress on it's program after the 2003 invasion of Iraq, and why Qaddafi gave up his WMD's altogether (and aren't we glad he did).
No it isn't easy to do once someone has mastered the techniques necessary to enrich uranium. And what you say is not a fact. Qaddafi nor Iran, nor Iraq has mastered the enrichment of uranium prior to 2003. You have said in fact. I really don't think you know what you are talking about.
Tell me more about your knowledge of MASINT defeat. 'Cause I think you are making crap up
No I am not making crap up. That is something that you always say. I know a little about physics. That's what I studied in school. I know a little about chemistry, although I admit it's not much. No I don't know what our intelligence capabilities in Iran are. What I am sure about is that they cannot know everything that goes on in Iran. And I am fairly confident that small scale enrichment of uranium can take place undetected in a country the size of Iran.
Until we bombed the facility, and they had to start over. Months/Years of work and millions/billions of dollars for them, Days/Hours of work and thousands of dollars for us.
Like I said, it appears you don't know a thing about the process of enriching uranium. Do you even realize something so basic as a nuclear reactor is not needed to enrich it? Basically the uranium is mined, crushed, milled and converted into yellow cake using various chemicals. The yellow cake is then converted uranium hexafluoride by chemical reactions using nitric acid, hydrofluoric acid, fluorine, etc. Once you have the uranium hexafluoride, it can be heated to form a gas. The U235, which is what you need for a fission bomb, can be separated from the U238. You don't need a nuclear reactor to do any of that. Since you like to use the phrase "in fact", IN FACT any freshman physics student knows about the cyclotron formula. Using that formula one could separate the U235 by putting the gaseous uranium hexafluoride into a magnetic field at a certain velocity. I said that because it could be done, even without centrifuges and certainly without a reactor. However one could simply run a small number centrifuges, and over many years have enough U235 for a bomb. Now what I just said is a fact. And even I, with the little knowledge of physics that I have know that. That is how common that knowledge is. Someone who is expert could do all that, undetected on a small scale.
Now it appears that you may know something about our intelligence capabilities. Perhaps you know enough to tell us how one could keep what I have said from happening on a small scale. I contributed what I know to the discussion and what I have said is hard scientific fact. It is not made up. So it's your turn to contribute to the discussion. Tell us exactly what our intelligence capabilities are, and how exactly they can keep what I described from happening on a small scale.
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