David E. Sanger
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That's enriched to 60 percent, very close to what you could use in a bomb.
But then they've got literally tons of other material enriched at different levels.
So what the U.S.
is saying here is you're agreeing that as a minimum, you're going to down blend that basically to a reactor level.
No, Natalie, diluting it is not the same as destroying it.
This is a daily broadcast, not a physics class, so I won't bore you with the details.
But the fact of the matter is it all depends here on the details of what they do with it.
If they simply down blend it, there is always the risk that later on they could re-enrich it.
But the important thing to know here is what they're not committing to
which is actually shipping the material out of the country.
Well, during the Obama-era deal in 2015, they actually did agree to ship out about 97% of the stockpile they had at the time.
Now, they built up much more over the past...
eight or nine years since President Trump left that agreement in 2018.
And the fact of the matter is the Iranians have not yet agreed to actually ship it out of the country, which, of course, would be the safest thing from a nonproliferation standard.
Not yet.
So the administration talks a lot about conversations that they have had, understandings they think they have struck with the Iranians on the side.
that would resolve the big nuclear issues.
But that negotiation is going to be so complex that they kicked it to a completely separate set of talks that are supposed to start in the next few days and run for 60 days, although everybody, including the president, has said they expect it to take longer.
That's right.
And you can't even compare these documents because –
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