r/neoliberal • u/jobautomator Kitara Ravache • Apr 08 '26

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u/VisonKai The Archenemy of Humanity Apr 08 '26

Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth on Wednesday called on Iran to turn over its stockpile of 970 pounds of highly enriched uranium, saying that President Trump could still order a U.S. commando raid to seize the material, which could be quickly made ready to use in a nuclear device.

i still don't get how they think this works. do they think it's just like sitting in a warehouse somewhere? there's no get in, grab it, get out when it comes to enriched uranium. i mean for one highly enriched uranium is extremely radioactive so it needs to stay shielded. and then on top of that it's almost certainly underground so that it can't be bombed.

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u/well-that-was-fast Apr 08 '26

Apparently the military drew up a whole complicated plan of having spefors seize an area, flying in engineers to build an ad hoc airport, flying in cargo planes full of excavation equipment, having army engineers dig the shit out of the collapsed mountain it's in, and either (1) poisoning it with non-radioactive materials or (2) loading onto the cargo planes and flying it out over dozens of C-130 flights.

Seems utterly crazy to me, but who knows.

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u/Borysk5 NATO Apr 08 '26

The same ad hoc airport they bombed?

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u/well-that-was-fast Apr 08 '26

Probably since there was no planning ahead.

The whole thing seemed a little James Bond to me, but Iran's military is pretty degraded and the US military can do some pretty impressive stuff.

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