TRITIUM TRAP: Iran's Nuclear Aspirations
1. A Hidden Underground Facility? Likely a Tritium Extraction Site
From the essay
Recent reports have uncovered a large underground facility in Iran. Speculation points toward it being a tritium extraction operation. Much of the media reporting described tritium as a substance used to "enhance" nuclear weapons. This terminology is misleading. In fact, tritium doesn't merely enhance nuclear weapons. Tritium makes nuclear weapons into thermonuclear weapons, or T-bombs. Without tritium, a nation can build fission bombs based on uranium or plutonium. With tritium, they unlock the vastly more powerful thermonuclear pathway—a quantum leap in destructive capability.
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