Fears Over Iran’s Missing 400kg Of Uranium. Enough To Make 10 Nukes, Says US

New Delhi:

A 400kg stockpile of uranium – enough to make up to 10 nuclear weapons, United States Vice President JD Vance told American broadcaster ABC News – is unaccounted for after Washington dropped six ‘bunker busters‘ on three Iranian nuclear facilities last week. The missing uranium – seen as a powerful bargaining chip for Iran, whenever it opts to resume talks with the US on a new nuclear deal – is enriched to 60 per cent. It needs to be enriched to about 90 per cent to be used as a nuclear weapon.

There are reports Iran may have moved the stockpile, as well as some equipment, days before the attack to a secret location, a claim repeated by Israeli officials to The New York

Satellite images from before the US’ strike showed a line of 16 trucks outside the Fordow nuclear plant, which is built inside a mountain and is considered impervious to most missile attacks, prompting Israel to ask the US to deploy its B-2 ‘Spirit’ bombers and the GBU-37 ‘bunker busters’ bombs early Sunday.

The bombs were dropped on the Fordow, Natanz, and Isfahan nuclear facilities.

Post-attack images showed signficant damage to all three but the trucks were missing.