David McCloskey

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.

This isn't new information, right?

It's years old.

Totally, totally obliterated it, which is why Pete Hegseth is saying, well, actually, you need to hand over all this other stuff or we'll come get it.

I have to say, Gordon, I don't like being in a position of having to give you compliments.

It's a very uncomfortable position for me, but I should tell listeners, and I'm man enough to do this, that I put Gordon Carrera on the spot here with that little science explanation.

He nailed it.

He did that.