Hello and welcome to serious inquiry only.

This is episode 487.

I'm your host Thomas Smith.

So I don't know if you remember.

I certainly didn't.

We had like a brief war with

Iran. Did you remember that? Did you remember? What is what is today's news environment? Yeah,

that happened a bit ago. I don't even exactly remember when Israel was involved. I remember that.

Seems like it was a short-lived war,

but that was about nukes. If only we had had a deal in place with Iran to limit their nuclear

activity. Oh, wait, we did, but then Trump tore it up, unilaterally, essentially. But what was

that deal? Was it good? Was it take to make nuclear weapons? Can you or I do it? Should we do it?

But no, what does it take to make them? Could Iran make them at any time, really? If not,

why not? Do they really want to make them? What would a better nuclear deal look like?

Will we ever get another nuclear deal with them? Just tons of questions. Tons of questions about

this entire situation. And not really just the politics, The science involved. Super fascinating. And I've got nuclear engineer Evan McDonnell on to answer those questions for us. As well as tell us where the media is getting this wrong. Really fascinating stuff. So glad Evan hopped on. So why don't we get on over to it? We'll take a quick break, which you can avoid at patreon.com slash serious pod, and you can support the show. Get that warm, fuzzy feeling in your heart. It means the world to us. It's the only reason this is still going. Be one of the good folks supporting the show. Thank you to all those who do, and share the show of the friend. Listeners, anybody. That's something anyone can do. We really appreciate it.

All right.

After this break, we'll be on with Evan McDonald

and we'll be talking about the nuclear situation in Iran.

Evan McDonald, welcome back to the show, apparently.

Yeah, thank you so much.

How long has it been?

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