Is the United States about to use a nuclear weapon on Iran? On Saturday the President named the target, a mountain called Pickaxe. America’s biggest conventional bomb can’t reach inside it, by the best public estimates. So we ran it, minute by minute: the order, the bomb, the blast, the fallout, what happens to the Gulf and the world. And then the part almost nobody is talking about: the uranium everyone is after is probably not in that mountain. So somebody would still have to go in.
The mountain is real. The bomb is real. The clock is ours. No one has approved this, and the President has said he wouldn’t use a nuclear weapon. Reported claims are attributed in the film. 3D shots are reconstructions and simulations. Blast footage is real US test film from Nevada in 1957 and 1962, labelled on screen; none of it shows Iran.
Iran has a good 440 kg of 60% enriched uranium hidden away somewhere. That’s enough to build ten nuclear weapons.