What Does It Take to Make a Nuclear Weapon? – Podcast

Trump’s Attack on Iran May Have Made the Nuclear Crisis Worse

Iran still has the components needed to build a nuclear weapon after President Donald Trump ordered airstrikes on its nuclear sites, even as military hardliners dissatisfied with the weakness shown by their country’s clerical leadership are poised to gain greater control, multiple sources tell Rolling Stone. Trump has insisted America’s strikes on Iran’s nuclear sites caused “total obliteration,” and has attacked the media for questioning this…

Israeli, US strikes may compel Iran to develop nuclear arms

Experts polled by the daily note that Iran still has capabilities to continue enriching uranium but the exact timeline of it developing a nuclear weapon is hard to establish

What does it take to make a nuclear weapon? – podcast

In an interview last weekend, Iran’s ambassador to the UN said his country’s nuclear enrichment ‘will never stop’ because it is permitted for ‘peaceful energy’ purposes. It is the latest development in an escalation of tensions over Iran’s nuclear programme, which erupted when Israel targeted the country’s nuclear facilities in June. To understand why enrichment is so important, Madeleine Finlay talks to Robin Grimes, professor of materials phys…