On 22:08 21 Jun 2025, Roger Hayter said:
On 21 Jun 2025 at 16:55:59 BST, "Pamela"
<uklm@permabulator.33mail.com> wrote:
On 12:20 20 Jun 2025, Norman Wells said:
On 20/06/2025 10:53, JNugent wrote:
[TRIMMED]
It's quite gratifying actually that Trump and the USA can't do
everything they want.
They probably need to call in James Bond. Every movie ended with
the utter destruction of a deep underground facility or sometimes
a whole island.
No, that's just ridiculous fantasy! What they'll do in the real
world is send Tom Cruise in his X-wing Starfighter straight through
the doors they've opened with a sonic screwdriver to destroy it
with phasers and proton torpedoes.
Maybe that Iranian underground facility is susceptible to a hero
like Luke Skywalker in the original Star Wars movie who explodes the
Death Star with a torpedo sent precisely down an exhaust port!
It would be an interesting outcome if the Israeli military had
sufficient ground forces and materiel in Iran to do this but they
are too far away.
I really don't think a death star designed by a proper engineer (not
a director of tawdry films) would have such a weakness!!
To be serious, heat extraction for thousands of underground centrifuges
would require excellent exhaust systems and ventilation needs would be considerable.
On the other hand, Iran has an unusually large number of good engineers
who could turn their hand to this.
There's some fascinating illustrations of the construction at: <
https://isis-online.org/isis-reports/a-key-missing-piece-of-the-amad-
puzzle>
However Trump's overnight bombing now makes such considerations
academic.
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