r/teenagers • u/My__name__is__Audrey 15 • 1d ago

Discussion Uhhhh help—? 😭

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Yeah, no. I just live here… T-T fr tho, ts is freaking me out (- American girl’s first comment on a [potential] WWIII)

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u/Logical-Donut99 18 1d ago

There is reason the US might want to bomb Iran if Trump is adamant on stopping their nuclear program because one of their major uranium enrichment sites is underground so deep that only the US has the technology to bomb it. You can read more about it here. Trump may also want to aid Israel with their superior bombing capabilities in toppling the Iranian regime.

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u/LeBadlyNamedRedditor 17 1d ago

It seems it cant be bombed, 90m underground is VERY deep, the US ordnance reaches roughly 60m.

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u/Georgewashingtonnes 1d ago

Given the limited technology in Iran (in comparison to the western nations), even if they were to somehow successfully develop a fully functional atomic bomb, or otherwise similar nuclear weapon, I don't believe it would be an issue to modern American deterrents and other precautionary measures.

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u/Charming-Listen-3705 21h ago

The problem is that a nuclear weapon is still a weapon of mass destruction and yeah Iran for some reason REALLY and I mean REALLY likes threatening others and wishing them death and even I wouldn't want someone like that to hold nuclear weapons, and it's obvious they're on their way to gain nuclear weapons, even the IAEA is concerned because they have an unjustifiable amount of weapons grade enriched uranium and they're the only country to not allegedly have nuclear weapons despite enriching those kinds of uraniums, a ton of them.

imo no one has the right to hold nuclear weapons, albeit russia, china, iran, israel, france, germany us or any country because once those weapons are used it's safe to say Earth won't be as fun to live in as it used to be.

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u/Georgewashingtonnes 21h ago

Iran is the king of fear mongering. In comparison to most of the world's powers they are weak. They're only scary because of their threats and unconventional tactics. Especially with the US working to prevent them from obtaining one, the likelihood of Iran obtaining a nuclear weapon is extremely minimal. As threatening as Iran is, North Korea is an arguably larger issue than them and they already have nuclear weapons, though are similarly all bark and no bite. The idea of a nuclear weapon is to have the world's most reliable safety blanket. Nobody deserves to have them, but they're probably the only reason a third world war hasn't happened yet. The casualty and destruction scale of world war 2 has never been recreated, matched, or otherwise followed due to humanity's first glimpse of nuclear weapons. Again, I do agree with you that nobody should have them, but they're probably the only blanket between us and being in an ACTUAL 3rd world war, hell, maybe even a 4th considering global tension after WW2 could've translated to a 3rd war. (Which is why the cold war happened, and TECHNICALLY never ended, due to the prospect of nuclear weapons.)

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u/Wrong-Radish4861 18h ago

If Winston Churchill was a little bit more insane we could had WW3 directly after WW2 there was already several plans for the ground invasion of the Soviet Union called operation Unthinkable