David McCloskey

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It's not.

And, you know, in preparing for these episodes, I was struck, Gordon, at how even having done

a significant amount of very deep reading on the topic, how it can get very confusing and technical very, very quickly.

Yeah.

And so I think it's important to kind of break out, well, what constitutes a nuclear weapons program?

And there are basically three legs to this piece of furniture.

One of them is the production of the fissile material.

That is what most of the Iranian conversation, the public conversation is about.

It is how much highly enriched uranium at what enrichment level do the Iranians have?

So it's the production of the fissile material.

The second component is weaponization.

I mean, I'm tempted, Gordon, to have you give us another science lesson about... Yeah, go back to our Klaus Fuchs episodes if you want those.

Go back to our Klaus Fuchs episodes.

But you can't just take...

a big square of highly enriched uranium and like toss it out of an airplane, right?

Yeah.

It might hit someone on the head.

If it fell in the water, it might get somebody sick.