Don’t you wonder why it took the USA from Dec. 7, 1941 to go from a small and very slow research project into the feasibility of building an atomic bomb into an all-out scramble to build one, which was done when they successfully tested the first one on July 16, 1945, a period of about 3 years and 7 months if you don’t count the formation of the Advisory Committee on Uranium in October 1939.
It wasn’t until January 19, 1942 that President Roosevelt formally authorized the atomic bomb development project, so 43 days after Pearl Harbor was attacked, atomic bomb research became a real and serious thing and the Manhattan Project was begun, spread out among different sites.
Three and one half years later, the United States was in possession of at least one atomic bomb. By August 9, 1945, 24 days after the test, it was known to the world that the US had developed and used two more.
3.5 years from basic conception to final delivery.
So here’s the question. How could it possibly have taken Iran 46 years to NOT succeed in building even one? Look how fast the Russians did it. Hell, look at Pakistan, it only took one scientist with enough knowledge to do it. Does this make sense to you that Iran never built atomic bombs?
Either it was all just a bluff and they were actually never really trying to at all, or they’ve been building and stockpiling them for many years. The Russians helped build their atomic power plants that provide the plutonium from uranium fission that makes the atomic bombs go boom. They had plenty of it.
I read all the explanations from Google, I kept asking it’s AI and questioning the answers, and Google spits out what’s become Dogma, all the excuses why Iran is “Only two weeks away” and stayed “only two weeks away” for decades. Sorry, no sale. We may never know the truth or some day a huge trove of Iranian A-Bombs may be found. Or not. But Iran not having The Bomb does not pass the smell test and never will.