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paleotn

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14. With enriched material already in hand

Reply to D_Master81 (Reply #10)

Fri Apr 17, 2026, 03:12 PM

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they could have several warheads in a matter of months. It’s the enriched material that’s always the hard part. Not a simple gun type device. The Manhattan Project guys sketched out “Little Boy” in a couple months. “Fat Man” took considerably more work, but “Little Boy” was much easier. The hard part was the enriched U235. Iran already has plenty of that

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