3/26/26 Dan Vergano: Iran was Nowhere Close to a Nuclear Bomb

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Scott Horton

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4.8 • 989 Ratings

🗓️ 29 March 2026

⏱️ 26 minutes

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Scott interviews Dan Vergano of Scientific American about an article he wrote exposing how scientifically absurd the claim that Iran was close to even having the ability to fully weaponize the enriched Uranium they possessed was when Washington and Tel Aviv launched this war. Discussed on the show: “Iran was nowhere close to a nuclear bomb, experts say” (Scientific American) Dan Vergano is senior editor, Washington, D.C., at Scientific American. He has previously written for Grid News, BuzzFeed News, National Geographic and USA Today. He is chair of the New Horizons committee for the Council for the Advancement of Science Writing and a journalism award judge for both the American Association for the Advancement of Science and the U.S. National Academies of Sciences, Engineering, and Medicine. Audio cleaned up with the Podsworth app: https://podsworth.com Use code HORTON50 for 50% off your first order at Podsworth.com to clean up your voice recordings, sound like a pro, and also support the Scott Horton Show! For more on Scott's work: Check out The Libertarian Institute: https://www.libertarianinstitute.org Check out Scott's other show, Provoked, with Darryl Cooper https://youtube.com/@Provoked_Show Read Scott's books: Provoked: How Washington Started the New Cold War with Russia and the Catastrophe in Ukraine https://amzn.to/47jMtg7 (The audiobook of Provoked is being published in sections at https://scotthortonshow.com) Enough Already: Time to End the War on Terrorism: https://amzn.to/3tgMCdw Fool’s Errand: Time to End the War in Afghanistan https://amzn.to/3HRufs0 Follow Scott on X @scotthortonshow And check out Scott’s full interview archives: https://scotthorton.org/all-interviews This episode of the Scott Horton Show is sponsored by: Roberts and Roberts Brokerage Incorporated https://rrbi.co Moon Does Artisan Coffee https://scotthorton.org/coffee; Tom Woods’ Liberty Classroom https://www.libertyclassroom.com/dap/a/?a=1616 and Dissident Media https://dissidentmedia.com You can also support Scott’s work by making a one-time or recurring donation at https://scotthorton.org/donate/https://scotthortonshow.com or https://patreon.com/scotthortonshow Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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0:00.0	Ladies and gentlemen of the press have been less than honest, reporting to the American people, what's going on in this country?
0:11.0	Because the babies are making it.
0:13.0	We're dealing with Hitler Revisited.
0:15.0	This is the Scott Horton Show, Libertarian Foreign Policy, mostly.
0:21.7	When the president visit, that means that it is not only...
0:24.5	We're going to take out seven countries in five years.
0:27.1	They don't know what the fuck they're doing.
0:29.3	Negotiate now.
0:31.4	End this war.
0:33.5	And now, here's your host, Scott Horton.
0:39.8	Aren't you guys introducing Dan Vergano, and he is, I've got his bio right here, senior editor, boy, I've got to put these glasses back on for a second.
0:48.6	A senior editor.
0:50.2	The Scientific American, the Washington, D.C. editor.
0:54.0	It's written for the National Geographic in USA Today and things like that.
0:58.5	And so here he is, oh, this is good.
1:02.5	He's a judge for both the American Association of the Advancement of Science
1:06.5	and the U.S. National Academies of Sciences, Engineering, and Medicine.
1:10.4	So I guess he knows a thing about something. Or I'm old.S. National Academies of Sciences, Engineering, and Medicine. So I guess he knows a thing about something.
1:14.0	Or I'm old.
1:14.9	Yeah.
1:15.7	Yeah.
1:16.3	So welcome the show.
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