Spiny Norman said:

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.

YT

Iran has a good 440 kg of 60% enriched uranium hidden away somewhere. That’s enough to build ten nuclear weapons.

So, about 44kg per bomb?

That’d give a 2-3 kiloton yield, tops. The Hiroshima bomb was 15 kilotons.

But, it’s nothing to sneeze at.

Assuming a standard low-altitude airburst over a modern urban area, the localized effects can be categorized into four primary concentric zones:

1. The Fireball & Vaporization Zone (Radius: ~150 meters / 0.1 miles)

• The Blast Effect: A blinding flash creates a hyper-intense fireball where temperatures briefly reach millions of degrees.

• The Damage: Everything directly at the detonation center is instantly incinerated, melted, or vaporized. No structures survive, and fatalities within this circle are 100%.

2. Heavy Blast Damage Zone (Radius: ~600 meters / 0.4 miles)

• The Blast Effect: The shockwave produces extreme overpressures exceeding 10 to 15 psi (pounds per square inch).

• The Damage: Concrete and steel commercial buildings suffer severe structural failure or collapse. Multi-story apartment complexes and residential homes are completely demolished. Large-scale fires are ignited simultaneously by the thermal pulse. Fatalities in this zone remain extraordinarily high due to collapsing infrastructure, flying debris, and intense heat.

3. Moderate Blast & Infrastructure Damage Zone (Radius: ~1.1 km / 0.7 miles)

• The Blast Effect: Overpressures hit roughly 5 psi.

• The Damage: Unreinforced brick structures and typical residential walls collapse. Major utility infrastructure (electrical grids, water mains, telecommunications) is severed. While modern reinforced steel-frame buildings might retain their core skeletons, their interiors are completely gutted, and doors and windows are violently blown out. Injuries are widespread, primarily caused by blunt force trauma and glass shrapnel.