We see that the buildings are surrounded by berms; they are a distance from each other. This is a typical design for a site that works with high explosives, i think there are serious questions to be asked [of] the Iranian government. Most likely IAEA should have access to this site.

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It will, indeed, be a heck of a challenge. by Olli Heinonen

It will, indeed, be a heck of a challenge.

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You can repaint, and pour concrete, to hide radioactive residue or simulate the tests with non-nuclear material.

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This is a very unusual IAEA verification approach, which has no reason to be confidential unless a very special reason - proprietary, economic or security - calls for it.

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It's a de facto nuclear threshold state. So you can't just forget about weaponization, you don't need to know every nut and bolt of the past program. But you need to know how far they got.

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Such compressors can be used to extract enriched uranium directly from the cascades, in particular, they are useful when working with higher enrichment such as 20 percent enriched uranium.

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Historically, nuclear-weapon design and even manufacturing have gone hand by hand with the production of fissile material, the bomb to Hiroshima was dropped without testing only a few weeks after the last chunks of high enriched uranium were produced.

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The killer is the number of centrifuges. by Olli Heinonen

The killer is the number of centrifuges.

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