David McCloskey

Is that it's in people's brains, which again, hence the need for these assassinations as seen from the Israeli perspective, because you destroy the facilities, but you also have to destroy the people who are critical to- Yeah.

in particular, the weaponization, right?

And we've talked about some of those assassinations on the program.

But when you broaden the scope and you look at, you know, there's probably 25,000 people in the broader program and hundreds to maybe low thousands involved in weaponization.

So when you see numbers of Israeli assassinations of like, okay, they kill 15 or 20 Iranian nuclear scientists or engineers at the outset of the 12-day war last summer,

Yes, that is doing damage to the program, but there are a lot of other people who are involved or could be involved, you know, to replace the people who were killed.

You see the problem now in Operation Epic Fury where the Iranians are still firing ballistic missiles.

Despite all of the assaults on the launchers, on the missile stockpiles, on these underground missile cities, at the upstream manufacturing and production capabilities, the Iranians are firing them at a severely reduced pace, but they're still firing them.

you know, you have an issue of just there's a huge amount of stuff that you would need to destroy.

And in this case, I mean, on the missile program, I mean, you're talking about dozens and dozens of facilities that are involved, right?

In every kind of, you know, piece of the production pipeline all the way up to the

up to launch, not counting all these dispersed launch positions or support installations and a bunch of stuff that we don't know about.

And I mean, I think this is part of why the US Israeli campaign hit thousands of targets in the opening days of Epic Fury, because there's just so much, there's so much to hit.

And, you know, if you put all of that together, the production of fissile material, the weaponization, and the delivery, I think it's helpful to kind of

marry all of this and say, where were we on the eve of Midnight Hammer?

Now, the best analysis of the IAEA verification and monitoring reports suggest that by June of 2025, so right before the 12-day war, right before Midnight Hammer,

Iran had 440 kilograms, 970 pounds of uranium enriched up to 60%.

Now, Gordon, I resisted doing this in the first episode of this series.

But can you explain for us, when we say 60%, 60% means what?

Well, it's research for a bomb.