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Scott Horton

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Lex Fridman Podcast
#473 – Iran War Debate: Nuclear Weapons, Trump, Peace, Power & the Middle East

And I only just found out that he died two years ago.

Lex Fridman Podcast
#473 – Iran War Debate: Nuclear Weapons, Trump, Peace, Power & the Middle East

Unfortunately, he used to write for us at antiwar.com and a brilliant nuclear physicist and H-bomb developer.

Lex Fridman Podcast
#473 – Iran War Debate: Nuclear Weapons, Trump, Peace, Power & the Middle East

And he had really taught me all about this stuff.

Lex Fridman Podcast
#473 – Iran War Debate: Nuclear Weapons, Trump, Peace, Power & the Middle East

And yeah.

Lex Fridman Podcast
#473 – Iran War Debate: Nuclear Weapons, Trump, Peace, Power & the Middle East

So I'm not correcting anything you said.

Lex Fridman Podcast
#473 – Iran War Debate: Nuclear Weapons, Trump, Peace, Power & the Middle East

What he said essentially is right.

Lex Fridman Podcast
#473 – Iran War Debate: Nuclear Weapons, Trump, Peace, Power & the Middle East

I maybe add a little more detail.

Lex Fridman Podcast
#473 – Iran War Debate: Nuclear Weapons, Trump, Peace, Power & the Middle East

The easiest kind of nuke to make out of uranium is a simple gun type nuke like they dropped on Hiroshima.

Lex Fridman Podcast
#473 – Iran War Debate: Nuclear Weapons, Trump, Peace, Power & the Middle East

It's a little boy.

Lex Fridman Podcast
#473 – Iran War Debate: Nuclear Weapons, Trump, Peace, Power & the Middle East

It's essentially a shotgun firing a uranium slug into a uranium target.

Lex Fridman Podcast
#473 – Iran War Debate: Nuclear Weapons, Trump, Peace, Power & the Middle East

And that's enough.

Lex Fridman Podcast
#473 – Iran War Debate: Nuclear Weapons, Trump, Peace, Power & the Middle East

They didn't even test it.

Lex Fridman Podcast
#473 – Iran War Debate: Nuclear Weapons, Trump, Peace, Power & the Middle East

They knew it worked.

Lex Fridman Podcast
#473 – Iran War Debate: Nuclear Weapons, Trump, Peace, Power & the Middle East

uh it was so easy to do to do the hiroshima bomb the nagasaki bomb was a plutonium implosion bomb it's virtually always plutonium that's used in implosion bombs um and and in miniaturized nuclear warheads that can be married to missiles right as opposed to a bomb you can drop out of the belly of a plane that's what he was saying right so gun type nuke you can't put that on a missile that is by far the

Lex Fridman Podcast
#473 – Iran War Debate: Nuclear Weapons, Trump, Peace, Power & the Middle East

easiest kind of nuclear weapon for iran to make if they broke out and made one right but it'd essentially be useless to them right what are they gonna do drive it to israel in a flatbed truck right they got no way to to deliver that they could drop it as a they can yeah they could test it in the desert and beat their chest but essentially that's all they could do or you could drop it from a plane like we did as scott said in with hiroshima nagasaki

Lex Fridman Podcast
#473 – Iran War Debate: Nuclear Weapons, Trump, Peace, Power & the Middle East

Yeah.

Lex Fridman Podcast
#473 – Iran War Debate: Nuclear Weapons, Trump, Peace, Power & the Middle East

Well, very slim chance of Iranian heavy bombers getting through Israeli airspace.

Lex Fridman Podcast
#473 – Iran War Debate: Nuclear Weapons, Trump, Peace, Power & the Middle East

But anyway, but to make an implosion bomb, they would have to do years worth of experiments unless the Chinese or the Russians just gave them the software or gave them the finished blueprints or something, which is no indication of that whatsoever.

Lex Fridman Podcast
#473 – Iran War Debate: Nuclear Weapons, Trump, Peace, Power & the Middle East

The only people gave them blueprints for a nuclear bomb was the CIA.

Lex Fridman Podcast
#473 – Iran War Debate: Nuclear Weapons, Trump, Peace, Power & the Middle East

Remember Operation Merlin?