Lex Fridman Podcast
#473 โ Iran War Debate: Nuclear Weapons, Trump, Peace, Power & the Middle East
They're making like the most latent of threat, a bargaining chip to negotiate a way.
Lex Fridman Podcast
#473 โ Iran War Debate: Nuclear Weapons, Trump, Peace, Power & the Middle East
They're trying to put pressure on the United States to come back to the table.
Lex Fridman Podcast
#473 โ Iran War Debate: Nuclear Weapons, Trump, Peace, Power & the Middle East
That's not the same as racing to the bomb.
Lex Fridman Podcast
#473 โ Iran War Debate: Nuclear Weapons, Trump, Peace, Power & the Middle East
That's why Marco Rubio says, nevermind the intelligence, because the intelligence says what I just said.
Lex Fridman Podcast
#473 โ Iran War Debate: Nuclear Weapons, Trump, Peace, Power & the Middle East
You know, the problem is we're talking about nuclear stuff, which is all very complicated.
Lex Fridman Podcast
#473 โ Iran War Debate: Nuclear Weapons, Trump, Peace, Power & the Middle East
And most people don't know much about it, which is what the war party is relying on.
Lex Fridman Podcast
#473 โ Iran War Debate: Nuclear Weapons, Trump, Peace, Power & the Middle East
That people just hear nuclear, afraid, and mushroom cloud, and give the benefit of the doubt to the hawks.
Lex Fridman Podcast
#473 โ Iran War Debate: Nuclear Weapons, Trump, Peace, Power & the Middle East
And so we got to get into the details of this stuff.
Lex Fridman Podcast
#473 โ Iran War Debate: Nuclear Weapons, Trump, Peace, Power & the Middle East
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.
Lex Fridman Podcast
#473 โ Iran War Debate: Nuclear Weapons, Trump, Peace, Power & the Middle East
And so- Medical isotopes.
Lex Fridman Podcast
#473 โ Iran War Debate: Nuclear Weapons, Trump, Peace, Power & the Middle East
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,
Lex Fridman Podcast
#473 โ Iran War Debate: Nuclear Weapons, Trump, Peace, Power & the Middle East
This is where we get this 90% number from, right?
Lex Fridman Podcast
#473 โ Iran War Debate: Nuclear Weapons, Trump, Peace, Power & the Middle East
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?
Lex Fridman Podcast
#473 โ Iran War Debate: Nuclear Weapons, Trump, Peace, Power & the Middle East
That's just meaningless.
Lex Fridman Podcast
#473 โ Iran War Debate: Nuclear Weapons, Trump, Peace, Power & the Middle East
Why is that meaningless?
Lex Fridman Podcast
#473 โ Iran War Debate: Nuclear Weapons, Trump, Peace, Power & the Middle East
Well, as I've already established numerous times here, under the JCPOA, they shipped out every bit of their enriched uranium stockpile.
Lex Fridman Podcast
#473 โ Iran War Debate: Nuclear Weapons, Trump, Peace, Power & the Middle East
The French turned it into fuel rods and then shipped it back.
Lex Fridman Podcast
#473 โ Iran War Debate: Nuclear Weapons, Trump, Peace, Power & the Middle East
That's the deal they're trying to get the U.S.
Lex Fridman Podcast
#473 โ Iran War Debate: Nuclear Weapons, Trump, Peace, Power & the Middle East
back into and were obviously clearly willing to do.
Lex Fridman Podcast
#473 โ Iran War Debate: Nuclear Weapons, Trump, Peace, Power & the Middle East
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.