...A bigger worry.
While reducing Iran’s enrichment capacity is not necessary, it is, however, very important to reduce the amount of enriched uranium residing in Iran. According to a September, 2014, paper by Frank von Hippel and Alex Glaser of Princeton University, Iran currently has more than 5 metric tons of low-enriched uranium hexafluoride gas, also known as “uranium gas”—and only about 1.3 metric tons is needed to provide the enriched uranium feedstock for a first nuclear weapon. In a breakout scenario, cylinders of this enriched uranium gas could first be rapidly spirited away from Natanz and Fordow to unknown, hidden facilities, where they would be immune from military attack, and then used to at least triple the rate of production of bomb material....
So, there you have it. While the media likes to confuse the issue of the negotiations with Iran because they don't understand "Sh&$%$#T" about the technical issues, there are those that do understand.
There are several MEASURABLE quantities that will satisfy the negotiations. The agreement is not so much a secret when the public can understand what the words are looking like to the agreement. The agreement will be enforceable and it will be clear to the capacity of Iran's nuclear program.
Iran is a signator to the Non-proliferation Treaty. The world values that treaty and we expect Iran to live within the words of that treaty. They are not allowed to have a military capacity in their nuclear program. It is the hope of most every government that any other country with military nuclear capacity will move away from it to insure their people are not in the crosshairs of the five permanent powers.
If the military capacity of nuclear weapons were only within the five permanent countries, they could begin to wind down their arsenals and with the hope of future generations have the threat erased all together from a world growing smaller and smaller everyday.
While reducing Iran’s enrichment capacity is not necessary, it is, however, very important to reduce the amount of enriched uranium residing in Iran. According to a September, 2014, paper by Frank von Hippel and Alex Glaser of Princeton University, Iran currently has more than 5 metric tons of low-enriched uranium hexafluoride gas, also known as “uranium gas”—and only about 1.3 metric tons is needed to provide the enriched uranium feedstock for a first nuclear weapon. In a breakout scenario, cylinders of this enriched uranium gas could first be rapidly spirited away from Natanz and Fordow to unknown, hidden facilities, where they would be immune from military attack, and then used to at least triple the rate of production of bomb material....
So, there you have it. While the media likes to confuse the issue of the negotiations with Iran because they don't understand "Sh&$%$#T" about the technical issues, there are those that do understand.
There are several MEASURABLE quantities that will satisfy the negotiations. The agreement is not so much a secret when the public can understand what the words are looking like to the agreement. The agreement will be enforceable and it will be clear to the capacity of Iran's nuclear program.
Iran is a signator to the Non-proliferation Treaty. The world values that treaty and we expect Iran to live within the words of that treaty. They are not allowed to have a military capacity in their nuclear program. It is the hope of most every government that any other country with military nuclear capacity will move away from it to insure their people are not in the crosshairs of the five permanent powers.
If the military capacity of nuclear weapons were only within the five permanent countries, they could begin to wind down their arsenals and with the hope of future generations have the threat erased all together from a world growing smaller and smaller everyday.
