US EditionIran’s nuclear materials and equipment remain a danger in an active war zone
Despite air strikes damaging Iranian nuclear sites, roughly 970 pounds of 60% enriched uranium remain intact in deep underground tunnels, posing ongoing proliferation risks.
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The Conversation
Iran’s nuclear materials and equipment remain a danger in an active war zone
The war in Iran has cut off diplomatic efforts to limit the country’s development of nuclear weapons. Securing that material and equipment in other ways would be difficult and dangerous.
In the ongoing US attacks on Iran, nuclear weapons are serving a familiar purpose: as a pretext for military action that was already decided. On March 2, Secretary of State Marco Rubio justified the attacks as an attempt to limit the damage from a planned Israeli attack and to avoid a situation where Iran had “so many conventional missiles, so many drones, and could cause so much damage that no one could contain its military program.” It has bec…
Cobb County Courier
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by Matthew Bunn, Harvard Kennedy School, [This article first appeared in The Conversation, republished with permission] Before launching his war on Iran, President Donald Trump said his most important goal was that Iran would “never have a nuclear weapon.” Yet it is not clear what, if anything, his administration has planned for dealing with Iran’s stock of enriched uranium that could be used to make nuclear bombs – or its remaining deeply burie…
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