Scott Horton

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.

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

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

And he had really taught me all about this stuff.

And yeah.

So I'm not correcting anything you said.

What he said essentially is right.

I maybe add a little more detail.

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

It's a little boy.

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

And that's enough.

They didn't even test it.

They knew it worked.

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

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

Yeah.

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