Scott Horton

That's why Marco Rubio says, nevermind the intelligence, because the intelligence says what I just said.

You know, the problem is we're talking about nuclear stuff, which is all very complicated.

And most people don't know much about it, which is what the war party is relying on.

That people just hear nuclear, afraid, and mushroom cloud, and give the benefit of the doubt to the hawks.

And so we got to get into the details of this stuff.

That was a very long list of claims that he made, though, where I felt like I had to go down the list as much as I could.

And so- Medical isotopes.

Yeah, but what you're saying, if you include the mining, the refining of the ore into yellow cake, the transformation of that into uranium hexafluoride gas, the driving of it in a truck over to the centrifuge and then spinning it,

This is where we get this 90% number from, right?

In place of 90% enriched uranium or 80% enriched uranium, it's 90% of the way on some chart that includes picking up a shovel and beginning to mine, right?

That's just meaningless.

Why is that meaningless?

Well, as I've already established numerous times here, under the JCPOA, they shipped out every bit of their enriched uranium stockpile.

The French turned it into fuel rods and then shipped it back.

That's the deal they're trying to get the U.S.

back into and were obviously clearly willing to do.

And again, the only reason they were enriching up to 60 percent was to put the pressure on the Americans to go ahead and get back into the deal.

And bad bet, it gave him an excuse to bomb based on the idea that people are going to listen to him pretend that somehow that's 99% of the way to the bomb when you're including, yeah, driving to the mine and mining it and converting it to yellow cake and all these other things.

So I just want to sort of define terms so that when we're having this big debate, your listeners kind of understand what we're talking about.

I have an old friend of mine used to make nuclear bombs, Gordon Prather.