Peace In Our Time

 

"Peace in our time."

The Iran treaty where John "Lurch" Kerry gave the Iranians $150 million to promise not to build a nuclear weapon and test it over Tel Aviv, Israel to kill millions of Jews, was lauded by the left and called treasonous by the right in a classic "DC bar brawl" by the striped pants class in DATE.  

The $150 million was actually a deposit the old Shah had made for military aircraft we had embargoed so title to said currency was in dispute as a result of our peace people pushing the President to grab it.  When Obama came in, being a Muslim at heart the Iranians realized they had a hook.  The following is an account we published in 2013 of the fiasco and a basis for understanding what will be coming up soon and critical to the Biden Administration.

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(Dec. 2013) The Obama “Peace in our time” deal with Iran is one that would make Nevil Chamberlain blush.  Once again our inept President and his dullard Secretary of State, John F. Kerry, snatched defeat from the jaws of victory.  Iran was desperate.  Mr. Obama took care of that for them.

Iran agreed to make its stockpile of fissile material less dangerous and reduce its capacity to produce new fissile material quickly.  Iran agreed to stop enriching uranium above five percent.  Bomb grade fissile uranium has to be above 90%.

To enrich uranium, the metal is turned into a fluoride salt which vaporizes.  The gas is spun in long tubes at high speed. Heavy U-238 isotope goes to the outside while lighter, but fissionable, U-235 remains near the center of the spinning tube to be drawn off pneumatically.  

The difference is slight because atoms move inversely as the squares of their atomic weights. For uranium 238 the square is 56644 and 55225 for uranium 235. The difference of only 3% which means the process must be repeated many times to separate the two isotopes.  

Isotopes are atoms with the same numbers of protons, but different numbers of neutrons, hence the mass difference.  The number of neutrons and nuclear geometry determine whether or not it is fissionable bomb fuel, material.

Iran has between 11,000 and 19,000 centrifuges spinning 24/7.  Under the deal, Iran was asked not to increase the number, not give them up.  “Well duh!”  They were also asked to asked to reduce their now 20% enriched material to 3% which they could do in ways that could be reversed by metallurgy or chemistry easily and quickly.  Again, "Well duh!"

Iran has a stockpile of 200 kilograms of uranium enriched to 20 percent and the only reason for this that they are on their way to 90% which could make six Hiroshima class bombs.

In the deal Iran is to dilute this to below five percent or convert it to a form that cannot be enriched in the future.  This is physically impossible, but the Obama gang is too stupid to know it. It is also claimed by John Kerry that Iran has agreed not to increase the 3.5% stockpile of uranium, but there are no inspection protocols for this in the deal which they are not calling a treaty so Obama can pull it off without Senatorial approval.

For these meaningless promises Iran gets to collect $4.2 billion in money from sales of Iranian oil and about $1.5 billion from the export of gold.  We are surprised that Mr. Obama didn’t give them a few billion Dollars of our money, some F16's and a few hundred tanks so eager was he to deliver, “Peace in our time!”  Who would ever think we would have a President who could give Neville Chamberlin lessons in stupidity?

Mr. Obama is at last making good on his promise, “If you like your nuke…”

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John Kerry has been appointed to deal with this problem and he is anxious to get back into it.  We can only hope, arrogant and not-too-swift as he is, that a miracle happens and the Iranians do not make a fool of John Kerry as they did the last time, and create another Middle East armigedon.

 

Adrian Vance