{"id":30686,"date":"2025-06-28T13:00:07","date_gmt":"2025-06-28T13:00:07","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/medexperts.pro\/?p=30686"},"modified":"2025-06-28T13:23:57","modified_gmt":"2025-06-28T13:23:57","slug":"israel-and-u-s-smashed-iran-nuclear-site-that-grew-after-trump-quit-2015-accord","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/medexperts.pro\/?p=30686","title":{"rendered":"Israel and U.S. Smashed Iran Nuclear Site That Grew After Trump Quit 2015 Accord"},"content":{"rendered":"

Nuclear experts say the president\u2019s rejection of the restrictive deal forced him to neutralize an Iranian threat of his own making.<\/p>\n

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Israeli and American strikes appear to have created a major roadblock to Iran\u2019s manufacture of atomic bombs, even if its cache of uranium fuel remains untouched, analysts say.<\/p>\n

That\u2019s because attacks on one of the sites, in Isfahan, shattered gear that Iran was preparing to use for the transformation of enriched uranium gas into dense metal. That process, known as metallization, is among the last steps in making the explosive core of an atomic bomb.<\/p>\n

Some nuclear experts argue that the demolished gear might never have existed but for President Trump\u2019s abandoning a restrictive nuclear deal in his first term that President Barack Obama had negotiated.<\/p>\n

Mr. Trump and his allies faulted the 2015 Obama deal as preserving Iran\u2019s ability to produce as much nuclear fuel as it wanted after 2030. But some experts see that criticism as ignoring a far more immediate threat. They note that Iran ramped up work at Isfahan only after Mr. Trump canceled the deal, and that now, in effect, he has been forced to neutralize a danger of his own making.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n

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\u201cIt\u2019s unlikely that we would have had to bomb uranium metal production facilities today if the first Trump administration had not pulled out of the Iran deal,\u201d said Robert Einhorn<\/a>, a former arms control official who worked on U.S. negotiations with Iran during the Obama administration and is now a senior fellow at the Brookings Institution.<\/p>\n

Michael S. Lubell<\/a>, a professor of physics at the City College of New York who has held federal clearances that gave him access to government secrets on nuclear arms, agreed. President Trump \u201ccreated this mess,\u201d he said. \u201cThere\u2019s no question that the Iran deal was working. He tore it up, created a mess and is now saying, \u2018I\u2019m the savior.\u2019\u201d<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n

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12 Days of Attacks Later, Could Iran Make an Atomic Bomb?<\/h2>\n

How an atomic weapon is built, and what the recent Israeli and U.S. attacks on Iran may mean for the country\u2019s nuclear ambitions.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n

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Nuclear experts say the president\u2019s rejection of the restrictive deal forced him to neutralize an Iranian threat of his own making.Israeli and American strikes appear to have created a major roadblock to Iran\u2019s manufacture of atomic bombs, even if its cache of uranium fuel remains untouched, analysts say.That\u2019s because attacks on one of the sites, in Isfahan, shattered gear that Iran was preparing to use for the transformation of enriched uranium gas into dense metal. That process, known as metallization, is among the last steps in making the explosive core of an atomic bomb.Some nuclear experts argue that the demolished gear might never have existed but for President Trump\u2019s abandoning a restrictive nuclear deal in his first term that President Barack Obama had negotiated.Mr. Trump and his allies faulted the 2015 Obama deal as preserving Iran\u2019s ability to produce as much nuclear fuel as it wanted after 2030. But some experts see that criticism as ignoring a far more immediate threat. They note that Iran ramped up work at Isfahan only after Mr. Trump canceled the deal, and that now, in effect, he has been forced to neutralize a danger of his own making.\u201cIt\u2019s unlikely that we would have had to bomb uranium metal production facilities today if the first Trump administration had not pulled out of the Iran deal,\u201d said Robert Einhorn, a former arms control official who worked on U.S. negotiations with Iran during the Obama administration and is now a senior fellow at the Brookings Institution.Michael S. Lubell, a professor of physics at the City College of New York who has held federal clearances that gave him access to government secrets on nuclear arms, agreed. President Trump \u201ccreated this mess,\u201d he said. \u201cThere\u2019s no question that the Iran deal was working. He tore it up, created a mess and is now saying, \u2018I\u2019m the savior.\u2019\u201d12 Days of Attacks Later, Could Iran Make an Atomic Bomb?How an atomic weapon is built, and what the recent Israeli and U.S. attacks on Iran may mean for the country\u2019s nuclear ambitions.We are having trouble retrieving the article content.Please enable JavaScript in your browser settings.Thank you for your patience while we verify access. If you are in Reader mode please exit and\u00a0log into\u00a0your Times account, or\u00a0subscribe\u00a0for all of The Times.Thank you for your patience while we verify access.Already a subscriber?\u00a0Log in.Want all of The Times?\u00a0Subscribe.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":30688,"comment_status":"close","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[34],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-30686","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-science"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/medexperts.pro\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/30686","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/medexperts.pro\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/medexperts.pro\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/medexperts.pro\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/medexperts.pro\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=30686"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/medexperts.pro\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/30686\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":30689,"href":"https:\/\/medexperts.pro\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/30686\/revisions\/30689"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/medexperts.pro\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/30688"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/medexperts.pro\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=30686"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/medexperts.pro\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=30686"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/medexperts.pro\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=30686"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}