Comment on After Israel and USA's bombing, wouldn't any supposed nuclear bombs go off if there were any?
phoenixz@lemmy.ca 3 days ago
No they won’t
Nukes are extremely hard to build and ensure they can explode. You’re talking extremely precisely timed explosives that with even a mili second off, will make your heavy nuke turn into a dud. Throwing a bomb right on top of one will not make it go off.
What CAN happen is that an explosion like that ruptures the nuke had throws the fissile material around, effectively making your nuke a dirty bomb.
Also, since they’ve been bombing nuclear facilities I can guarantee you that they have boat loads of very shitty (radioactive) chemicals laying around there which with these bombings now will also be spread around everywhere
Excellent response.
I’m just commenting to say that they’ve determined that there is no rise in radiation around the sites they struck, so either there was no radioactive material stored there, or they didn’t impact the sites as badly as they are claiming. If there was radioactive material, it remained contained. They may still have to rebuild their facilities, but they still have the most important element, the uranium.
ChairmanMeow@programming.dev 2 days ago
So far no radiation was detected, so perhaps it was stored more securely (or somewhere else).
EldenLord@lemmy.world 2 days ago
Even more concerning. This indicates that either:
1.: The radioactive material hasn‘t been destroyed
2.: Israel & USA completely made up Iran‘s nuclear capabilities
3.: Nuclear warheads have already been made and transported. Unlikely but nothing to joke about.
lb_o@lemmy.world 2 days ago
Third is not highly probably, because definitely sites were monitored much earlier than the strikes themselves. Especially after Iran lost air superiority
Any suspicious activity would be noticed