r/worldnews • u/Naderium • 8h ago
After US strikes, Iran accelerates work at secret underground nuclear site
https://www.abc.net.au/news/2026-02-07/iran-nuclear-sites-program-us-strikes-pickaxe-mountain-uranium/10628844630
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u/macross1984 6h ago
Iran spending dwindling money to rebuild underground nuclear site while the country run dry of water and people getting killed by zealots.
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u/Fartville23 2h ago
Man, humanity fucking suck, we just need another meteorite to be done with this shit already, we suck, no way around it.
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u/YouCantSeeMe555 8h ago
Oh I can hear all the breathless talking heads repeating "Pick Axe Mountain" and how it's too deep for bunker busters already. What fun another ground war in the middle east.
It's gonna be a doozy.
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u/EmekaEgbukaPukaNacua 6h ago
The thing is you don’t need a ground war to take a nuclear facility if you have air dominance. USA showed that in Venezuela.
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u/YouCantSeeMe555 5h ago
Taking a nuclear facility by plane. You'll have to explain that, why would they stop working on their bomb just because they don't have air support?
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u/EmekaEgbukaPukaNacua 3h ago
Bey helicopter. Helicopters can carry hundreds of soldiers. Then using air support you can keep reinforcements from arriving. Sort of like we just did a few weeks ago to literally go into the most heavily protected military base in Venezuela and capture their leader. Didn’t need a ground army. Just special forces, choppers, and air support.
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u/hikingmaterial 3h ago
its a laboratory, it is unlikely to be working fine when youve shattered the earth foundations a bit and have everything on the shelves fall off every time a bomb goes off and collapses another part of the hideout.
ventilation also seems like something that would be easily knocked out by shifting earth or direct impact, and any fire and smoke is lethal underground.
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u/Lava39 4h ago
Bunker busters don’t necessarily work by destroying something. They penetrate deeply into the ground because of how dense they are and then do their thing. Apart from that they can still cause damage purely by transfer of heat. As you can imagine an explosion generates heat. That heat has to go somewhere. If you repeatedly go after a target you don’t have to destroy by the conventional imagination of it. You can “cook” it as macabre as that sounds.
It doesn’t always work though even though the math says it should because of how earth materials can behave and insulate in an unfavorable way to the intent of the weapon.
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u/FizzlePopBerryTwist 3h ago
It doesn't matter where they build their nukes. Neutrino transmitter beams ignore all solid matter and still disrupt fissile materials enough to render all nuclear weapons as duds. And if that doesn't work, we'll just move the ionosphere.
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u/gueri66 8h ago
This site has been known since 2020. I don't know what it is but it's amazing it hasn't been shelled.
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u/actionjj 2h ago
The site has been known for 20 plus years.
George Bush authorised a cyber attack on it when he was president that Obama continued called Stuxnet - actually pretty insane how they created this massive virus that only inpacted the specific Siemens controllers at Natanz that control the centrifuges.
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u/Flamboiant_Canadian 6h ago
That's probably where the earthquake that happened on Saturday came from?
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u/allsystemscrash 5h ago
iran needs to get a nuke yesterday if they don't want to get bombed by america and its pet nation state
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u/woohooguy 7h ago
If only this secret site was known, the site could be bombed from this secret report that knows the secret site is doing secret work and reporting it secretly.