Herr Trump is an incredibly incompetent fool. Iran had numerous trucks lined up taking....

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17. Doesn't take much for a dirty bomb.

Then again, you can use radioactive hospital waste to do that. U235 is far better used to initiate nuclear fission. And by far the hardest piece of the puzzle to come by. But once acquired, with the right equipment, easily procured from industrial machine suppliers, and a little technical know how, you can make a gun type weapon in your garage. Think Little Boy. Trinity was a test of the more complex and challenging implosion type weapon, fat man. They didn't bother to test Little Boy since everyone knew it would work.

That's the part that gives me a moment of pause. If they have enough weapons grade material, Iran can build nuclear weapons relatively quickly. And already have the long and medium range deliver systems to transport them. And they sure as shit have a reason to with all this talk of "regime change."