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cedws 15 hours ago

So is that the end of Iran’s nuclear programme, or is there more to it?

giantg2 15 hours ago | parent | next [-]

They're committed. They'll rebuild. Just as Stuxnet just delayed things.

mensetmanusman 14 hours ago | parent [-]

Paper are committed to stop them it seems as well.

hotmeals 14 hours ago | parent | prev | next [-]

Terminator Skynet rules, they just delayed it.

swagasaurus-rex 15 hours ago | parent | prev | next [-]

This is just another square in my world war three bingo board. Sits pretty close to breaking the nuclear taboo square.

PeterHolzwarth 15 hours ago | parent [-]

A country doesn't acquire nukes to use them. They acquire them to freeze specific layers of conflict. Actually using them among peers invites annihilation.

mensetmanusman 14 hours ago | parent | next [-]

Statistics says even if it’s true, unintended use probability sky rockets risking nuclear winter.

PeterHolzwarth 13 hours ago | parent [-]

It turns out (and I didn't realize this until I looked back into it just a few years ago) that the 70s/80s concept of nuclear winter is discredited and believed not to be something that would arise from a global thermonuclear holocaust.

amoss 6 hours ago | parent [-]

On the contrary, modern research shows that the effects would be more severe and long-lasting: https://agupubs.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1029/2006jd00...

swagasaurus-rex 14 hours ago | parent | prev [-]

Annihilation, that would make a good square on the bingo board

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hiddencost 15 hours ago | parent | prev [-]

https://popular.info/p/what-will-happen-if-the-united-states

This is the end of any hope. Iran will now do everything in its power to get one. And it has all the skills it needs.

Refinement keeps getting easier.

PeterHolzwarth 12 hours ago | parent [-]

They've been doing anything in their power to get nuclear weapons for decades! This isn't some new trend that just occurred to them last week.