Highly Enriched Uranium: HEU

#Iran #NuclearProgram #OperationSapphire #BudapestMemorandum

Readers who want to see RantWoman go off, scroll down past the video and the embedded tweet.

"You can't bomb away their knowledge."

"Trust but verify."

"I think we are going to be dealing with Iran's nuclear program with very few tools...for a long time to come."

Iran just cited the Budapest Memorandum in nuclear talks with Washington.

Let that sink in.

The country America has been bombing for weeks just handed US negotiators a copy of their own promises and asked, politely, how that’s going. The 1994 Budapest Memorandum, in which… https://t.co/eEYALt8lMv

— Gandalv (@Microinteracti1) April 21, 2026

RantWoman pops off:

1. If having an insane leader is a reason for the a country not to have nuclear weapons, should the US expect maybe the Argentinian inspector from the IAEA or someone from Sweden to come knocking at our door needing to secure US nuclear weapons?

2. If RantWoman had her way, Israel would be subject to the same level of inspection that is being demanded of Iran. RantWoman thinks Israel will be able even without use of their nukes to wreak horrific carnage across its neighbors, but subjecting itself to international inspection and monitoring COULD be an interesting trust-building exercise.

3. RantWoman rather likes Iran's "How's that working out for you?" reference to the Budapest memorandum. There is plenty of commentary and a certain amount of lament in reference to Russia's war on Ukraine to Ukraine having given up its nukes. Nukes probably would not solve centuries of tug of war about Crimea but Ukraine would have had interesting cards. 

4. Kazakhstan is still cleaning up the consequences of Soviet Nuclear development. Qazaq national identity is grappling with that and, among other things, writing in Latin alphabet instead of Cyrillic.

5. Nostalgia is not exactly the right word, but RantWoman hearkens back to the halcyon days of #StableGenius 1.0 when the President was showing off something pretending to be The Art of the Deal threatening North Korea with nuclear war over Twitter. To this day, RantWoman has no idea why those threats were not deemed a violation of Twitter user agreements, but anyway.

          RantWoman has no exact knowledge of whether that got anywhere or whether the world has just figured out how to live with North Korean nukes. RantWoman does, though, wonder whether conversation would get anywhere if one asked the Dementia Patient in Chief "how's thatworking out for you?" about his previous approach to North Korea. If the President's brain is too far along turning into pudding, is there some lesson the rest of us need to draw.