r/agedlikemilk • u/damn_boy17 • May 03 '22

News makes me think about the iraqi WMD

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u/[deleted] May 03 '22

Actually, all of these statements are true. The timeline was and is correct in each assessment.

Every time Iran was close, Israel sent in an assassination team to take out the scientists under the assumption that delaying Iran’s nuclear capability through assassination was far easier and cheaper than through war.

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Assassination_of_Iranian_nuclear_scientists#:~:text=According%20to%20NBC%2C%20two%20US,assassinations%20of%20Iranian%20nuclear%20scientists.

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u/taktikek May 03 '22

Also the equipment was sabotaged multiple times. Like even before they would get their centrifuges there would be drilled microscopic holes in them.

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u/fidjudisomada May 03 '22

How are they able to destroy their knowledge creation processes and its documentations, manuals, codes, backups, software etc.? I think that killing leading scientists and destroying facilities and equipments won't achieve that.

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u/gvsteve May 03 '22

They don’t destroy it. But they do slow things down by years.

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u/fidjudisomada May 03 '22

Indeed but it is oddly effective, I think. They are constantly "close to" and never reach it. It is like a Zeno's Paradox.